| | 1 | = Compiling !MapServer = |
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| | 3 | This page offers tips and tricks for successfully compiling !MapServer on different operating systems. |
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| | 5 | * LinuxRedHat |
| | 6 | * RedHat8AndMapserver37 |
| | 7 | * RedHat9AndMapserver40b |
| | 8 | * RedHat9AndMapserver40 |
| | 9 | * Mandrake 9.1 |
| | 10 | * DebianLinux |
| | 11 | * MicrosoftWindows |
| | 12 | * MacOS X |
| | 13 | * Solaris 8 |
| | 14 | * Static Binary for Solaris |
| | 15 | * FedoraC2 Mapserver4.2.3 Postgis0.9.0 etc(Spanish) |
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| | 17 | == Using the "--with" option == |
| | 18 | I'm just building mapserver right now with as many of the options as I could feasibly get together. I ran "./configure" and it appeared to work correctly. When I went to run "make" though I get a cryptic error: "no input files" and it didn't do anything. Well, turns out, after 20 minutes of confusion (it had always compiled just fine before!!) I realized what I had done. I was trying to build in postgis support so I used the "--with-postgis" option. I had to tell it more specifically where to look for pg_config, so I used: |
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| | 20 | "--with-postgis=/usr/local/pgsql/bin" (where the pg_config program is located) But that wasn't right. I didn't notice it during the ./configure process, but it was complaining a dozen or so lines from the end - saying that I had specified a "directory" (as opposed to a file). So I then had to change it to "--with-postgis=/usr/local/pgsql/bin/pg_config" and now "make" actually does something. |
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| | 22 | So I learned my lesson - sometimes the "--with" options need only a directory (ie. --with-proj=../proj) and sometimes, like above, they need a path to a specific file. I assume this applies to more than just my php example. |
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| | 24 | You can check if a file or a directory is needed by typing ./configure --help and check the listing there. |
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| | 26 | == "make clean" is your friend... == |
| | 27 | don't forget too that when tying out lots of ./configure --with-foo options to run "make clean" between compilations. |
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| | 29 | We haven't had luck with make clean as far as we can notice. jsbj |
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| | 31 | "make distclean" seems to work. ank |
