Hi BG,
I've added a wiki page for this, that includes macOS specific steps to
compile SWIG from source, at
https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki/Compiling-SWIG-from-source
I strongly encourage you to edit and enhance that page, make
corrections, and/or create new wiki pages and share them here, to record
your steps so that others can learn from your journey.
(you can then add your new pages to the "Tips, Tricks, Howtos" section
of https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/wiki )
Thanks,
-jeff
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Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/
On 2022-09-28 12:48 p.m., b g wrote:
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for your response. It was indeed helpful and gave me something to
try out. However, when I try those lines of code, this is what it says:
Looking for PCRE2 tarball...
ls: pcre2-*.tar*: No such file or directory
Could not find tarball matching pattern: pcre2-*.tar*
admin@Administrators-Mac swig-git-master % ./autogen.sh
+ test -d Tools/config
+ aclocal -I Tools/config
./autogen.sh: line 11: aclocal: command not found
admin@Administrators-Mac swig-git-master % ./configure --prefix=/usr
zsh: no such file or directory: ./configure
admin@Administrators-Mac swig-git-master % make
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.Stop.
Are there any other lines that I need to include with those? The first
few run just fine (although I needed to replace 'wget' with 'curl'). And
does this replace the use of the Github clone for MapServer 8.0? Or is
this supposed to be setup in conjunction with MapServer 8.0?
Thanks again for your help,
bg
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*From:* MapServer-users <mapserver-users-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> on
behalf of Jeff McKenna <jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>
*Sent:* Tuesday, September 27, 2022 6:11 PM
*To:* mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org <mapserver-users@lists.osgeo.org>
*Subject:* Re: [MapServer-users] Swig Mapscript Still Fails to Build
with PHP 8
Hi BG,
Thanks for starting this discussion here, as many other readers will
help & learn from your situation; I first want to wish you a warm
welcome from the MapServer community :)
As Seth mentioned, I spent a lot of effort setting up the automated PHP
8 + MapServer 8 builds "on the cloud", and some of those steps can be
used by you directly.
But to step back a bit, first thing to mention is that PHP 8 with
MapServer 8 is best handled through the SWIG library "master" branch,
and this is likely one of your issues (the Homebrew formula you are
using for SWIG is probably SWIG 4.0.x, and you need the upcoming 4.1.0
release, or build its master branch from source).
Regarding the SWIG 4.1.0 upcoming release (and its heavy demand), see my
call for help at
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2022-September/016881.html
<https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2022-September/016881.html>
Regarding you possibly compiling SWIG 'master' branch, you can follow my
exact steps to do this on these lines:
https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/blob/main/ci/travis/before_install.sh#L38-L47
<https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/blob/main/ci/travis/before_install.sh#L38-L47>
(maybe other Mac devs can update those steps here in this discussion
thread for you)
I personally think all this will take some time before all packagers
catch up to these changes, to make it smooth for their users. In this
case some time is required before the next SWIG can be released, and
then propagated to all those FOSS4G packages that we love.
Its for this exact reason that I have put almost my entire career into
MS4W, to prevent users from facing these same build challenges (and
there are many challenges, ha).
I'm not sure that I've helped with this response, other than giving you
some background info.
Don't be discouraged, you will indeed fall in love with MapServer :)
Thanks,
-jeff
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