[mapserver-users] Compiling mapserver with custom libtiff and libgeotiff

[Frank Warmerdam]

Pavel Iacovlev wrote:
> Good day all,
> 
> Os: Ubuntu 8.04
> 
> I need bigtiff support in mapserver (default version in ubuntu 8.04
> does not offer this).
...
> Without --with-tiff=/usr/local compiles fine.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

Pavel,

The built-in tiff support in mapserver does not appear to work with the
latest tiff library and it is not well maintained.  Normally you should
build GDAL with libtiff4 to get bigtiff support.  The internal libtiff
in GDAL includes this so building it --with-libtiff=internal
--with-libgeotiff=internal should do the trick.

Then you will need to rebuild MapServer to use your new local GDAL
build.

Best regards,

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