Compiling Mapnik 3.0.11 for Ubuntu 16.04

C compiler:

• sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
• sudo apt-get update -y
• sudo apt-get install -y gcc-6 g++-6 clang-3.8
• export CXX="clang++-3.8" && export CC="clang-3.8"

C Libraries:

• sudo apt-get install -y python zlib1g-dev clang make pkg-config curl zip
• sudo apt-get install -y libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-regex-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-thread-dev
• sudo apt-get install -y libicu-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev libjpeg-dev libltdl7 libltdl-dev libpng-dev libproj-dev libgeotiff-dev libtiff-dev
• sudo apt-get install -y libcairo2 libcairo2-dev python-cairo python-cairo-dev ttf-unifont ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-core ttf-dejavu-extra libgdal1-dev python-gdal
• sudo apt-get install -y scons

Lib Harfbuzz

• wget http://www.freedesktop.org/software/harfbuzz/release/harfbuzz-0.9.34.tar.bz2
• tar xjf harfbuzz-0.9.34.tar.bz2
• cd harfbuzz-0.9.34
• ./configure && make && sudo make install
• sudo ldconfig

Mapnik

• git clone https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik.git
• cd mapnik/
• git checkout tags/v3.0.11
• git submodule update --init
• scons configure
• scons
• sudo scons install

Based on:

• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/UbuntuInstallation
• https://github.com/mapnik/mapnik/wiki/UsingScons