[Chameleon] Getting the samples working

[Paul Spencer]

There is this thing called FGS on the maptools site, its a pre-compiled 
package of everything needed to run mapserver.  However, it is still 
pre-release status (mostly due to lack of documentation).

Check out http://www.maptools.org/fgs/

Cheers

Paul

c p wrote:
> Thanks for your help... I've sent off an SOS to the mapserver users
> list.  Incidentally, is anyone here using an RPM-based installation
> (that works) or does everyone go throught the custom-compile route?
> 
> Regards,
> Corey
> 
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:44:51 -0500, Paul Spencer
> <pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
> 
>>sounds like an issue with freetype.  It is entirely possible that
>>shp2img is compiled with a different version of freetype than
>>php-mapscript, or that php and php-mapscript are compiled with different
>>versions.  This is often a problem with php-mapscript in general.  You
>>have to make sure that your php and php-mapscript are built with
>>identical versions of the various libraries.
>>
>>You can probably get more help on this on the mapserver-users list
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>c p wrote:
>>
>>>I've done some further testing by commenting out most of the popplace
>>>layer definition until I got something that worked without crashing
>>>and then working back.  It seems to be the FONT, TYPE & SIZE tags
>>>inside the LABEL definitions for the popplace layer that are causing
>>>the crash.  Commenting out those three tags result in the layer
>>>displaying (albeit with some default bitmap font).  I assume the
>>>freetype library is being used in the case of the truetype fonts.  Can
>>>anyone give me any ideas on how to get truetype rendering working?  I
>>>suppose it could still be configuration related somehow.  The puzzling
>>>thing is that shp2img renders the layer fine...
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>Corey
>>>
>>>
>>>On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:21:20 -0700, c p <cplists at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>The shapefile loads fine in JUMP.  I've also attempted to reproduce
>>>>the crash using the shp2img tool but when I render the chameleon.map
>>>>using shp2img everything renders fine including the popplace layer.
>>>>So the problem must be with php/mapscript?
>>>>
>>>>Corey
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:28:41 -0500, Paul Spencer
>>>><pspencer at dmsolutions.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>not sure.  Sounds like the popplace shape file might be corrupt.  Can
>>>>>you open it in something else (OpenEV, JUMP, Thuban, etc)
>>>>>
>>>>>c p wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Another followup on my problems getting the sample to work (Chameleon
>>>>>>v2.0).  The crashes seem to be caused by "popplace" layer.  Has anyone
>>>>>>else had this problem?  I suppose this would be best posted to the
>>>>>>Mapserver list.  I'm running Fedora Core 2 with the rpms from Mapping
>>>>>>Hacks which is MapServer v4.4.1.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>>Corey
>>>>
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>>
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>>|Paul Spencer                           pspencer at dmsolutions.ca   |
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