TRUETYPE Labels on Solaris

[Stephen Woodbridge]

Don Drake wrote:
> I've built everything from source.
>
> Just curious why you say PHP and mapserver need the same version of
> freetype when I run mapserver as a CGI?  They're independent processes
> at that point.

Correct. I was thinking of PHP/mapscript in which case you are loading
both PHP and Mapserver into the same executable and they both have to
use the same shared libs.

-Steve

> Thanks.
>
> -Don
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 19:24:25 -0500, Stephen Woodbridge
> <woodbri at swoodbridge.com> wrote:
>
>>Don,
>>
>>You might check and make sure that you are using the same version of
>>freetype in BOTH PHP and mapserver otherwise there may be issues. You
>>might need to build both PHP and mapserver from source if you haven't.
>>Also make use that the version of freetype that you compiled against is
>>the version that you are actually loading at runtime. You might have a
>>different system version that is getting loaded.
>>
>>-Steve W.
>>
>>Don Drake wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone have TrueType labels working on Solaris?  I am struggling
>>>to get these to work.  Our application is being ported to Solaris and
>>>I've noticed that this simple layer will crash the PHP/Mapscript when
>>>I choose the TrueType Type in the map file.
>>>
>>>I also get no debugging output.
>>>
>>>The same layer works just fine on my Linux servers.
>>>
>>>Here's the layer:
>>>
>>>        LAYER
>>>                DEBUG ON
>>>                NAME "credits"
>>>                STATUS ON
>>>                TRANSFORM FALSE
>>>                TYPE ANNOTATION
>>>                FEATURE
>>>                        POINTS
>>>                                10 440
>>>                        END
>>>                        TEXT 'Copyright 2005'
>>>                END
>>>                  CLASSPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu
>>>                        LABEL
>>>                                POSITION CR
>>>                                COLOR 255 255 255
>>>                                PARTIALS FALSE
>>>                                FONT "arial"
>>>                                #TYPE BITMAP
>>>                                #SIZE small
>>>                                TYPE TRUETYPE
>>>                                SIZE 8
>>>                                BUFFER 4
>>>                                MINDISTANCE 300
>>>                                MINFEATURESIZE 10
>>>                                OUTLINECOLOR 37 62 130
>>>                                ANTIALIAS TRUE
>>>                                FORCE on
>>>                        END
>>>                END
>>>        END
>>>
>>>Any suggestions? I'm on Solaris 9, Mapserver 4.4.1, gd 2.0.33, freetype 2.1.9.
>>>
>>>If I change the type to bitmap, nothing crashes and I see maps.
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>-Don
>>>
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