[gdal-dev] fwtools 2.1.0, gdal1.6 and oci, sde plugins

[Howard Butler]

Yes, if you need OCI and SDE plugins, the only binaries I am going to  
support going forward with builds are the official release binaries.   
These plugins are not compatible with FWTools except by accident,  
because FWTools tracks the trunk version of GDAL and is changing all  
of the time.  This is also the reason why it is so laborious to  
continually make new plugin builds -- plugins are sensitive to the  
kinds of changes we allow (and expect) to happen in trunk.

Howard


On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Duarte Carreira wrote:
> Howard,
>
> What is the simplest way you know of to have FWTools work with these
> plugins? I'm afraid I didn't quite understand your suggestion at the  
> end
> of your message. Should I start using gdal releases instead of fwtools
> if I need oci and sde?
>
> Thanks,
> Duarte
>
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: Howard Butler [mailto:hobu.inc at gmail.com]
> Enviada: quarta-feira, 9 de Abril de 2008 17:14
> Para: Duarte Carreira
> Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Assunto: Re: [gdal-dev] fwtools 2.1.0, gdal1.6 and oci, sde plugins
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Duarte Carreira wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I'm trying to use FWTools 2.1.0 with OCI and SDE plugins and get
>> errors related to wrong versions conflicts. OGR says gdal14.dll is  
>> not
>
>> found, and GDAL complains about SDE driver being compiled against  
>> GDAL
>
>> 1.5 and current version is 1.6.
>>
>> Are new plugins expected soon? And is there a workaround?
>>
>> Thanks everyone for your help.
>>
>
> Duarte,
>
> Our stable windows release located at
> http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/win32/1.5/
>  provides a full complement of current plugins for ArcSDE and OCI
> (along with some others like MrSID and ECW).  I have found it quite
> taxing to keep up building plugins for both FWTools and our stable
> releases, and with the new OSGeo4W effort, I have focused my effort on
> these because they should work in OSGeo4W as well.
>
> If you need to track GDAL trunk for a bug fix or new feature, I'm  
> afraid
> you'll have to invest some effort in building your own plugins (or
> linking in what you need directly for even easier usage).
>
> Howard