Fails to build on Debian sid/unstable #1010

Activity

1. artemp commented on Feb 5, 2025

   

   artemp

   on Feb 5, 2025

   Member

   More actions

   @StyXman - thanks for reporting.

   Preferred way to install node-mapnik -

   npm install @mapnik/mapnik   
   

   The command above will install both

   • latest @mapnik/node-mapnik@4.6.7
   • and platform specific @mapnik/core-[platform]-[arch]@4.0.5

   (tested on Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid aarch64)

   If your platform-arch is not supported, you can also build mapnik from source using scons toolkit which will create requiredmapnik-config. Then build node-mapnik with npm install --build-from-source

   If you want to use Debian sid/unstable libmapnik-dev you have a few options (not tested!)

   1. Fix CMake build to output well-formed mapnik-config instead of pkg-config
   2. Create and populate mapnik-config manually with required values.
   3. Make node-mapnik to use pkg-config instead of mapnik-config. This would require adding some missing options to libmapnik.pc to match mapnik-config

   grep -rn 'mapnik-config' binding.gyp  scripts  
   binding.gyp:74:          'MAPNIK_GIT_REVISION="<!@(mapnik-config --git-describe)"',
   binding.gyp:90:              '<!@(mapnik-config --includes)',
   binding.gyp:91:              '<!@(mapnik-config --dep-includes)'
   binding.gyp:93:            'defines': ['NOMINMAX','<!@(mapnik-config --defines)'],
   binding.gyp:96:              '<!@(mapnik-config --libs)',
   binding.gyp:99:              '<!@(mapnik-config --dep-libs)',
   binding.gyp:105:                  '<!@(mapnik-config --ldflags)'
   binding.gyp:113:              '<!@(mapnik-config --cflags)',
   binding.gyp:116:              '<!@(mapnik-config --libs)',
   binding.gyp:119:              '<!@(mapnik-config --ldflags)',
   binding.gyp:120:              '<!@(mapnik-config --dep-libs)'
   binding.gyp:129:                '<!@(mapnik-config --cflags)',
   binding.gyp:132:                '<!@(mapnik-config --cflags)'
   scripts/postinstall.sh:13:    'fonts':         '$(mapnik-config --fonts)',
   scripts/postinstall.sh:14:    'input_plugins': '$(mapnik-config --input-plugins)',
   scripts/postinstall.sh:19:    'ICU_DATA':      '$(mapnik-config --icu-data)',
   scripts/postinstall.sh:20:    'GDAL_DATA':     '$(mapnik-config --gdal-data)',
   scripts/postinstall.sh:21:    'PROJ_LIB':      '$(mapnik-config --proj-lib)'
   scripts/postinstall.sh:25:    ln -sf $(mapnik-config --prefix)/bin .
   scripts/postinstall.sh:26:    ln -sf $(mapnik-config --prefix)/lib .
   scripts/preinstall.sh:23:    MAPNIK_VERSION=$(mapnik-config -v)
   

   HTH
2. artemp

   self-assigned this

   on Feb 5, 2025