newbie: trouble building mapserver

[Armin Burger]

Hi Paul

I made the experience that Mapserver 4.10 just compiles with GEOS 
version 3, currently as release candidate 2. Mapserver 4.8 compiled fine 
with Geos 2.2.

armin

Paul Hussein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying for the first time to build mapserver from source on
> CentOS 4.4 (RHEL 4 clone), and have hit a compilation error.
> 
> The error is as below :
> 
> 
> ./libmap.a(mapgeos.o)(.text+0x180b): In function `msGEOSArea':
> /root/build/mapserver-4.10.0/mapgeos.c:1114: undefined reference to 
> `GEOSArea'
> ./libmap.a(mapgeos.o)(.text+0x1873): In function `msGEOSLength':
> /root/build/mapserver-4.10.0/mapgeos.c:1140: undefined reference to 
> `GEOSLength'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [shp2img] Error 1
> 
> 
> Can someone tell me if I need a specific version of the GEOS package,
> or any other package. I have tried as much aspossible to follow the
> linux build example given.
> 
> I include below a script I am using that gives all the versions and how 
> I build.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Paul.
> 
> ==================================================
> #!/bin/csh -fex
> setenv MAPSERVER_DIR /home/mapserver
> 
> touch build
> \rm -rf build
> mkdir build
> cd build
> wget http://cvs.gis.umn.edu/dist/mapserver-4.10.0.tar.gz
> wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/proj/proj-4.5.0.tar.gz
> wget http://geos.refractions.net/geos-2.2.3.tar.bz2
> wget wget http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.1.5.tar.gz
> wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.16.0.tar.gz
> wget http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.3.2.tar.gz
> 
> tar xzf gdal-1.3.2.tar.gz
> cd gdal-1.3.2
> ./configure --prefix=$MAPSERVER_DIR
> make
> make install
> cd ..
> 
> tar xzf curl-7.16.0.tar.gz
> cd curl-7.16.0
> ./configure --prefix=$MAPSERVER_DIR
> make
> make install
> cd ..
> 
> tar xzf proj-4.5.0.tar.gz
> cd proj-4.5.0
> ./configure --prefix=$MAPSERVER_DIR
> make
> make install
> cd ..
> 
> tar xjf geos-2.2.3.tar.bz2
> cd geos-2.2.3
> ./configure --prefix=$MAPSERVER_DIR
> make
> make install
> cd ..
> 
> tar xzf postgis-1.1.5.tar.gz
> cd postgis-1.1.5
> rehash
> ./configure --prefix=$MAPSERVER_DIR
> make
> make install
> cd ..
> 
> tar xzf mapserver-4.10.0.tar.gz
> cd mapserver-4.10.0
> ./configure \
> --with-wfsclient \
> --with-wmsclient \
> --with-tiff \
> --with-threads \
> --with-wcs \
> --enable-debug \
> --with-sos \
> --prefix=$MAPSERVER_DIR \
> --with-proj=$MAPSERVER_DIR \
> --with-geos=$MAPSERVER_DIR/bin/geos-config \
> --with-php=/usr/include/php \
> --with-postgis=/usr/bin/pg_config \
> --with-gdal=$MAPSERVER_DIR/bin/gdal-config
> make
> make install
> cd ..
> 
> 
> #\rm -rf build
>