June 2005
Beginner to intermediate
372 pages
10h 1m
English
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Getting MapScript
How do you get MapScript? There are variety of methods, some easier than others. The common requirement for running MapScript is that the scripting language itself must be available. The header files for the language may also be required if building the MapScript modules from source code.
Building MapScript from Source Code
Building MapScript from source for each language isn't detailed here, but there is a common approach.
To build MapScript for a language, support for that language must have been configured and built into MapServer itself when it was compiled. This sets up the various files in the MapScript language folders that are needed for the next step.
The MapServer source code directory structure includes a folder
called mapscript. This folder has
subsequent folders for each language that has some form of MapScript
support. The folder may have a Makefile that is ready to be used by
the make command, or it may have
some setup scripts. Running these produces MapScript modules or
libraries (depending on the language), and the scripts can often be
used to help install them too. For example, with Python, you build and
then install MapScript by running:
>python setup.py build>python setup.py install
There are several other files and directories that are part of the Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG) environment. SWIG is used to port MapScript to certain languages. This is now the standard method for producing a MapScript extension for additional ...
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