Martin, Good news. So did you download and build trunk or install SCons separately?
Regarding APIs, there is both a C++ api and a Python API. I assume you are looking for Python API documentation? You can get basic boost::python generated api documentation through pydoc. Also. I've been starting to write docstrings for the major classes, like mapnik::Layer and mapnik::Map. For example do: $ pydoc -p 8080 # to serve all your python documentation Then go to http://localhost:8080/mapnik._mapnik.html And notice a few classes with docstrings at http://localhost:8080/mapnik._mapnik.html#Layer or http://localhost:8080/mapnik._mapnik.html#Map The problem with PyDoc is that it's often too much for beginners. One solution is to poke through the examples code here: http://code.google.com/p/mapnik-utils/ What we really need is some nice narrative documentation, but that hard to find time for. Dane On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Michael L Martin wrote: > Thank you, Dane- > > This also corrected some compile-time errors I was seeing. > Being very, very new to mapnik, is there a convenient place on the > web where one can browse the API? All I see on the documents link > is the install doc and the tutorials. > > Thanks, > Mike > > > Dane Springmeyer wrote: >> The version of Scons-local bundled with Mapnik 0.5.1 is not >> compatible >> with Python 26. >> >> However, Mapnik trunk fixed #164 but upgrading the version of SCons- >> local distributed with mapnik (in Trunk) and the upcoming 0.6 release >> works great with python 2.6 >> >> So, you can either upgrade to mapnik trunk or like Nico recommended, >> build mapnik with an external install of SCons. >> >> The syntax for that would be: >> >> $ cd mapnik_source_code >> $ SCons # instead of python scons/scons.py >> >> Dane >> >> >> >> On Feb 16, 2009, at 8:28 AM, tschobber tschöbbi wrote: >> >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have some troubles installing Mapnik 0.5.1 from source on >>> openSuse11.1: When I run the scons.py in the source directory, I >>> always get the following error: >>> >>> /usr/bin/python2.6 scons/scons.py >>> scons: Reading SConscript files ... >>> /downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/SCons/ >>> Platform/posix.py:37: DeprecationWarning: The popen2 module is >>> deprecated. Use the subprocess module. >>> import popen2 >>> /downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/SCons/ >>> Tool/ >>> msvs.py:37: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use >>> hashlib instead >>> import md5 >>> Building on Linux ... >>> Checking for C library m... AttributeError: 'NodeList' object has no >>> attribute 'name': >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/SConstruct", line 174: >>> if not conf.CheckLibWithHeader(libinfo[0], libinfo[1], 'C') and >>> libinfo[2]: >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/SConf.py", line 606: >>> ret = apply(self.test, (context,) + args, kw) >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/SConf.py", line 946: >>> call = call, language = language, autoadd = autoadd) >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/Conftest.py", line 510: >>> ret = context.BuildProg(text, suffix) >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/SConf.py", line 793: >>> return not self.TryBuild(self.env.Program, text, ext) >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/SConf.py", line 766: >>> return apply(self.sconf.TryBuild, args, kw) >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/SConf.py", line 530: >>> nodes = builder(target = target, source = source) >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/Environment.py", line 214: >>> return apply(MethodWrapper.__call__, (self, target, source) + >>> args, kw) >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/Environment.py", line 178: >>> return apply(self.method, nargs, kwargs) >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/Builder.py", line 614: >>> return self._execute(env, target, source, OverrideWarner(kw), ekw) >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/Builder.py", line 548: >>> source = self.src_builder_sources(env, source, overwarn) >>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>> SCons/Builder.py", line 727: >>> match_suffix = match_src_suffix(s.name) >>> >>> I've read this page (http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/164) but I don't >>> have any idea how to upgrade the scons.py because it is a single >>> file just for the installation, or am I thinking wrong? >>> >>> I'm a big newbie on Mapnik :( and I would really appreciate if you >>> could help me! >>> >>> Greetings, >>> >>> Martin >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jetzt 1 Monat kostenlos! 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