[mapserver-users] mapserver 7.4 beta phpng build error

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Rich,

A small update: SWIG 4.0 was released yesterday.

-jeff




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Jeff McKenna
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On 2019-04-25 11:13 PM, Richard Greenwood wrote:
> I finally got PHPNG to build. As Jeff suggested, I built and installed 
> SWIG 4.0 beta but that didn't help. I compared my configure flags 
> against Seth's at
> https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/PHPNG-SWIG-MapScript-Linux-Build
> and it appears -DWITH_PYTHON=ON is what I was missing. Does that make 
> sense to anybody? It certainly doesn't to me.
> 
> I made a small edit to wiki/PHPNG-SWIG-MapScript-Linux-Build adding 
> "*../*" to the end of the cmake command.
> 
> Thanks Seth and Jeff.
> 
> Rich
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 4:32 PM Seth G <sethg at geographika.co.uk 
> <mailto:sethg at geographika.co.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I made a few minor changes to the PHP CMakeLists.txt in
>     https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/pull/5797
>     I've also added a wiki page detailing a full build process at
>     https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/wiki/PHPNG-SWIG-MapScript-Linux-Build
>     This relies on updating the mapscript/phpng/CMakeLists.txt file first.
>     Richard - if you get a chance to follow these steps and see if it
>     works for you that would be useful.
> 
>     Jeff - there might be some useful info on Windows PHP builds at
>     https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/5795
>     The SWIG 4.0.0 is in beta (and seems to break Python at the moment),
>     but maybe we can move to that when it is officially released to add
>     builds to the Travis and Appveyor builds.
> 
>     Seth
> 
> 
>     --
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> 
>     On Thu, Apr 25, 2019, at 3:30 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>      > On 2019-04-25 10:15 AM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>      > > Hi Rich,
>      > >
>      > > For Windows builds for MS4W I've been compiling SWIG master
>     from source
>      > > to handle PHP mapscript with PHP7.  On unix you can use the
>     recent SWIG
>      > > 4.0-beta1 release:
>      > > https://github.com/swig/swig/archive/rel-4.0.0-beta1.tar.gz  To be
>      > > honest I'll likely stick with master, as I've now had to use
>     that for
>      > > all builds since 2016 for PHP7 mapscript (SWIG 4.0 release has
>     been in
>      > > the works for a long time).  My point is, you may also choose
>     to stick
>      > > with master too.
>      > >
>      > > Hope that helps,
>      > >
>      > > -jeff
>      > >
>      > >
>      >
>      > Ha I guess my long email wasn't precise enough, I should have said:
>      > don't use SWIG 3.0.12, use SWIG-master or 4.0-beta1.   (for PHP7
>      > support)  -jeff
>      >
>      >