[mapserver-users] Compiling MapServer

[Fawcett, David]

Perhaps libjpeg should be moved from the 'optional external libraries' to the 'required external libraries' section page of the docs then?  http://mapserver.org/installation/unix.html



-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Bonfort [mailto:thomas.bonfort at camptocamp.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:59 AM
To: Frank Warmerdam
Cc: Fawcett, David; mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [mapserver-users] Compiling MapServer


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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