[MS4W-Users] Cairo

[Tamas Szekeres]

Emmanuel,

FYI: For testing purposes the Windows daily builds from
http://www.gisinternals.com/sdk/ already compiled with the latest version
of cairo/pixman and also compiled with SVG symbol support.

Best regards,

Tamas



2013/5/7 Emmanuel Belo <emmanuel.belo at camptocamp.com>

> Hi Jeff,
>
> Camptocamp is very interested in having svg support in Mapserver, also for
> linux versions. As I understand, this implies moving to librsvg or
> developing a compatibility layer. See
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-dev/2012-January/011901.html
>
> How could we setup a xfounding effort on this?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Emmanuel Belo
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 16 February 2013 19:54, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Donald,
>>
>> Your timing is good because I have been working on Cairo in MS4W.
>>
>> I have been working hard on upgrading MS4W Cairo (you can actually see
>> your version of Cairo installed on your local machine by going to
>> 127.0.0.1/README_INSTALL.html#mapserver-build-environment).
>>
>> You can see that the version on your machine is probably a year old or
>> so (git-03102011 is the date).
>>
>> Cairo depends on many libraries (Pixman, PNG, ZLIB, Freetype, and their
>> dependencies), and although super-simple to compile on Linux - I just
>> did from source on Ubuntu - it is one of the hardest things I have ever
>> done on Windows.  I do have the latest Cairo now working (1.12.14) in
>> MS4W, but I must do much more testing.
>>
>> Once I have something usable I will test the build in the ticket you
>> mentioned.
>>
>> Related: Another unbelievable pain is compiling libsvg-cairo (and
>> libsvg) for SVG symbol support on Windows.  I am in the exact same
>> position as others in the MapServer community
>> (
>> http://osgeo-org.1560.n6.nabble.com/SVG-symbol-support-in-MapServer-libsvg-and-librsvg-td4333022.html
>> ),
>> and I am considering using the librsvg library instead (as it is
>> actually maintained), but that is a considerable investment of effort (I
>> imagine the MapServer code would have to be adapted for this new
>> library).  If you are reading this and have comments/ideas/help, please
>> do comment directly in the related ticket:
>> http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2415
>>
>> I am away from now till a week from now giving training but I will
>> continue on this when I get back.
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jeff McKenna
>> MapServer Consulting and Training Services
>> http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
>>
>> On 13-02-16 1:32 PM, Donald Kerr wrote:
>> > Jeff,
>> >
>> > I think I am getting an issue with CAIRO/PNG OUTPUTFORMAT with labels.
>> > Please see here for further info:
>> > https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/issues/4581
>> >
>> > I would like to check whether or not the issue I am getting is in fact
>> > related to Cairo and to that end the question I have is, does MS4W use
>> the
>> > latest version of Cairo? If not, where can I source the latest dlls and
>> what
>> > dlls do I need?
>> >
>> > Many thanks.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Donald
>> >
>> _______________________________________________
>> MS4W-Users mailing list
>> MS4W-Users at lists.maptools.org
>> http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ms4w-users
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Camptocamp SA
> Emmanuel BELO
>
> Mon. Tue. Thu. Fri.
> +41 21 619 10 25 (direct)
> +41 79 936 46 62 (mobile)
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> MS4W-Users mailing list
> MS4W-Users at lists.maptools.org
> http://lists.maptools.org/mailman/listinfo/ms4w-users
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/ms4w-users/attachments/20130507/b3a1020c/attachment.htm