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Mapnik Installation
Mapnik is cross platform and runs on Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris, *BSD, and Windows.
To configure and build Mapnik do:
./configure
make
NOTE: the above will not work on windows, rather see https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/BuildingOnWindows
Then to run the tests locally (without needing to install):
make test-local
Install like:
sudo make install
If you need to uninstall do:
sudo make uninstall
For more details see the Building Section below.
Platform specific install guides at https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Mapnik-Installation
For troubleshooting help see https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/InstallationTroubleshooting
Depends
Build system dependencies are:
- C++ compiler (like g++ or clang++)
-
= 2 GB RAM
- Python 2.4-2.7
- Scons (a copy is bundled)
Mapnik Core depends on:
- Boost
-
= 1.47 is required.
- These libraries are used:
- filesystem
- system
- thread (if mapnik threadsafe support is required, default on)
- regex (optionally built with icu regex support)
- program_options (optionally for mapnik command line programs)
-
- libicuuc >= 4.0 (ideally >= 4.2) - International Components for Unicode
- libpng >= 1.2.x - PNG graphics
- libjpeg - JPEG graphics
- libtiff - TIFF graphics
- libz - Zlib compression
- libfreetype - Freetype2 for font support (Install requires freetype-config)
- libxml2 - XML parsing (Install requires xml2-config)
- libproj - PROJ.4 projection library
Mapnik Python bindings depend on:
- Python 2.5-2.7 or >= 3.2
- Boost python
Note: Python3k is supported, see: https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Python3k
Optional dependencies:
- Cairo - Graphics library for output formats like PDF, PS, and SVG
- pkg-config - Required for building with cairo support
- pycairo - Python bindings for cairo
- libpq - PostgreSQL libraries (For PostGIS plugin support)
- libgdal - GDAL/OGR input (For gdal and ogr plugin support)
- libsqlite3 - SQLite input (needs RTree support builtin) (sqlite plugin support)
- libocci - Oracle input plugin support
- libcurl - OSM input plugin support
Instructions for installing many of these dependencies on various platforms can be found at the Mapnik Wiki:
https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/Mapnik-Installation
Building
The build system uses SCons, a pure python equivalent to autotools or cmake.
We provide a simple Makefile wrapper that can be used like:
./configure && make && make install
For help on what options are accepted do:
./configure --help
To interact with the local copy of scons directly you can do:
python scons/scons.py configure
You can also use a globally installed scons:
scons configure
If you want to clean your build do:
make clean
If you experience odd configure errors, try cleaning the configure caches:
make distclean
To install in a custom location do:
./configure PREFIX=/opt/mapnik
To pass custom CXXFLAGS or LDFLAGS do:
./configure CUSTOM_CXXFLAGS="-g -I/usr/include" CUSTOM_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib"
To pass custom paths to a dependency, like boost, do:
./configure BOOST_INCLUDES=/opt/boost/include BOOST_LIBS=/opt/boost/lib
To pass custom paths to a dependency, like icu, do:
./configure ICU_INCLUDES=/usr/local/include ICU_LIBS=/usr/local/include
For more details on usage see:
https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/UsingScons
Testing Installation
You can run the Mapnik tests locally (without installing) like:
make test-local # see the Makefile for how this works
Or you can install and test like:
make install && make test
Many of the tests are written in python and you can run them individually like:
make install
python tests/python_tests/shapefile_test.py
Learning Mapnik
Help
Mapnik has an active community of talented users and developers making beautiful maps.
If you need help or want to participate starting points include:
- Sign up and post to the mailing list: http://mapnik.org/contact/
- Join and ask questions on the #mapnik channel on irc://irc.freenode.net/mapnik
- Add your help questions to https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik-support
Cartographers
TileMill, which uses Mapnik internally, offers great step by step tutorials for learning advanced map styling: http://mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/crashcourse/introduction/
Programmers
Mapnik is great for building your own mapping applications. Visit https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/LearningMapnik for basic tutorials on how to programmatically use Mapnik.
Contributers
Read docs/contributing.markdown for resources for getting involved with Mapnik development.