Introduction
MapServer is an open source and free software for rendering maps, images, and vector data on the web. MapServer was originally developed by the University of Minnesota (UMN) ForNet project in cooperation with NASA and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. Presently, the MapServer project is hosted by the TerraSIP, a NASA sponsored project between the UMN and consortium of land management interests (http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu).
MapServer can be compiled on many platforms and operating systems, but in this tutorial, I will focus on unix like system, especially Linux.
Prerequisites
Operating system used in this tutorial is Linux Fedora Core 7 with Apache (httpd-2.0.55), PHP (php-5.2.3), and PostgreSQL(postgresql-8.2.4) already installed using manual source installation (not using default rpm package). Required libraries that already installed are libpng, libjpeg, libtiff, and zlib. Installation manual for those softwares and libraries are beyond the scope of this tutorial.
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May 19th, 2008 at 6:48 am
Una consulta… me aparece un error al instalar gdal, al momento de hacer el “make” sale el siguiente mensaje.
make[1]:se sale del directorio ‘/usr/local/gdal-1.5.1/apps’
Alguna sugerencia??
Gracias
May 19th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
hola kaztel, ¿podría mostrar varias líneas de sus mensajes de error?
Gracias
May 20th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Hola Lorenz
Ya solucione mi problema me faltaban unas dependencias del gdal.
Muchas Gracias
September 14th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Thnx alot,
I’ve been having problems installing on openSUSE10.3
Would this work on OpenSUSE??
thanks again.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:30 am
@styxGH
I never tested it on openSuse, but if all required libraries are installed, it must be going well
Best Regards
October 15th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
I had a make error like kaztel.
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lodbcinst
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [shp2img] Error 1
found the fix here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=232792#c2
a redhat bugzilla I think about building the mapserver 4.10.1-2 rpm
” This is because `$GDAL_CONFIG –dep-libs` in configure adds
unnecessary linkages.
Applying a patch for configure to remove the above seems
good. For sed usage,
”
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%sed -i.libs -e ’s|`\$GDAL_CONFIG –dep-libs`||’ configure
November 6th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Saya mencoba dengan 2 command di bawah ini, sudah bisa terinstall.
yum install mapserver
yum install php-mapserver
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