mapserver/doc/building.md

Building the mapserver

Instructions to build the mapserver from source

Build dependencies

• go >= 1.11 (for the binary)
• rollup >= 1.x (for the embedded js/css assets)

Ubuntu install: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Ubuntu

Compile

Generate the js bundle for the frontend:

cd static/js
rollup -c rollup.config.js

Generate the mapserver binary:

# generate the static web files
# this step embeds the generated js/css/html files for inclusion in the resulting binary
go generate

# build the binary for the current playtform
go build

# (optionally) run the unit-tests
go test ./...