Python Mapscript

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 5/17/05, Paul Scott <pscott at uwc.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have decided to try my hand at a little Python Mapscript, after using
> PHP Mapscript for about 3 years, but am having some trouble building it.
> 
> I executed python setup.py build as per the wiki instructions, but
> received a ld error:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmap
> 
> and then gcc exits.

Paul, 

Have you already built mapserver?  Do you have a libmap.a in the
main mapserver directory?  

> Am I missing a library or something?
> 
> Mapserver is v 4.4.1 on RH9 (shrike)...
> 
> Alternatively is there a pre-built python mapscript somewhere that I can
> use? I just want to try my hand at it for now...

You can grab the FWTools build which includes python
mapscript and gdal python bindings.  It does not include PHP.

  http://fwtools.maptools.org/

Best regards,
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