geographika / python-mapscript

Python MapScript

This repository is used to build Python MapScript Wheels for Windows.

See Wheels Docs for details.

Adding Wheels to the Repo

Trigger a new build on GitHub Actions with the following in the commit message: upload-wheels

Testing a Wheel

The example below tests Python 3.11 with a PowerShell script:

$PYTHON_VER="Python311"
$PYTHON_ROOT="C:/$PYTHON_VER"
$WHEEL="D:\GitHub\python-mapscript\wheels\mapscript-8.0.1-cp311-cp311-win_amd64.whl"
$VENV="C:\VirtualEnvs\mapscript-$PYTHON_VER"

.$PYTHON_ROOT\Scripts\pip install virtualenv
.$PYTHON_ROOT\Scripts\virtualenv $VENV
.$VENV\Scripts\activate.ps1

pip install $WHEEL
$env:MAPSERVER_DLL_PATH="D:\MapServer\VS2022\build\Release;D:\MapServer\VS2022\sdk\release-1930-x64\bin"
python -c "import mapscript;print(mapscript.msGetVersion())"