[mapserver-users] Compiling MapServer

[Thomas Bonfort]

Frank,

We already had a dependency on libpng and libjpg through GD (as gd
isn't statically linked against those). How can the direct dependency
be causing any more problems than the actual situation ?

regards,
thomas

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On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 17:50, Frank Warmerdam<warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Fawcett, David wrote:
>>
>> What is the latest advice for output image libraries when compiling
>> mapserv on unix?
>> I remember an older conflict with libtiff and the tiff functionality in
>> GDAL.
>> If one is going to include GDAL, does it make sense to add libtiff,
>> libgeotiff, or libjpeg, or is it better practice to just use GDAL to
>> read and write these formats?
>
> David,
>
> It is better to leave out direct use of libtiff, and just let GDAL do it.
> Likewise for reading jpeg, and other image formats.  However, I have
> noticed that mapserver-trunk now seems to depend on direct use of libpng
> and libjpeg for generating these files (as opposed to going through GD).
> So it may not be so easy to avoid libpng and libjpeg in builds.
>
> I persume this is not yet an issue with the released versions.
>
> Best regards,
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