[mapserver-users] OSX binaries update

[Dane Springmeyer]

Hi William,

I just installed you new mapserver 5.2.0-2.dmg to test out python  
mapscript.

I get an inconv error which is odd. Any ideas?

springmeyer:~ spring$ python
Python 2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 17 2008, 19:35:17)
[GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
 >>> import mapscript
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
   File "/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/mapscript.py", line 7, in  
<module>
     import _mapscript
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.5/site-packages/_mapscript.so,  
2): Symbol not found: _iconv
   Referenced from: /Library/Frameworks/GDAL.framework/Versions/1.5/ 
Libraries/libpq.dylib
   Expected in: /usr/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib


Thanks,

Dane

On Sep 19, 2008, at 9:18 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> I finally figured out a longstanding problem with my OSX binaries -  
> python mapscript wasn't working.
>
> The problem comes from FastCGI support for the mapserv CGI.  When  
> python tries to import mapscript, you get an error about libfcgi not  
> finding the _environ symbol (from apache?).  Since I build MapServer  
> with a dynamic library (framework) I can't use a separate library  
> for mapserv and mapscript.
>
> I tried moving cgi stuff from the library into mapserv, but I think  
> CGI functions are needed elsewhere also, or I just didn't go far  
> enough, and I couldn't get it to work.
>
> So, given this, and the recent discussion saying that fastcgi only  
> provides a tiny performance gain, I removed fastcgi from my OSX  
> binaries. (fastcgi is also a lot more complex to setup on OSX  
> compared to standard CGI and the various mapscripts.)
>
> And python mapscript now works on OSX!
>
> -----
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> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>
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>
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