[mapserver-users] multiple mapserv versions side by side

[Daniel Morissette]

On 2015-02-17 9:18 PM, Richard Greenwood wrote:
> I'd like to play with the mapserv 7 beta on the same Ubuntu machine that
> I have mapserv 6.4 installed on. But both versions are using
> libmapserver.so so depending on what I have in my ldconfig path it's
> finding the 6.4 version lib or the 7beta ib. Is there an easier way to
> have both versions without changing ldconfig each time I switch between
> the two versions? Sorry, I know this is probably a pretty basic Linux
> question.
>


Hi Rich,

Use

cmake  ... -DLINK_STATIC_LIBMAPSERVER=1  ...

and libmapserver.a will be statically linked into your mapserv 
executable, and then you can simply copy the executable to your cgi-bin

cp ./mapserv /usr/lib/cgi-bin/mapserv70


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