[gdal-dev] Build OGR with ESRI SDE

[Clay, Bruce]

Steve:
  One word of caution is to make sure you build all of the supporting
modules (expat, xerces, geos etc) in the same mode.  I spent
considerable time over that past week chasing bizarre crashes that gave
heap errors and other crashes down in Microsoft space only to find that
one of the lower level modules pulled in msvcp80.dll (or something
similar and the other modules pulled in the debug version of the same
file.  

I don't know how ESRI gets GDAL.dll to run on all systems unless they
include files from the c++ redistribution patch in their installation
because in addition to the above headaches I also have to apply a
Microsoft patch to the computers to get even the most basic GDAL program
(like gdalinfo) to run.  It will run where the compiler is but when you
are ready to distribute the program it must be built in release mode and
the patch must go on.

If you also intend to create a c# application to work with ESRI code
make sure your OGR c# code is built with the same execution mode.  Other
than a few headaches like the above you can merge GDAL and ArcObjects
together to get visualization and speed.  Let the GDAL/OGR code do the
heavy lifting and the ArcObjects code do the rest.

Ok, so it was a bit more than one word of caution.

Bruce


-----Original Message-----
From: gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:gdal-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Mullins, Steven
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 10:42 AM
To: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: RE: [gdal-dev] Build OGR with ESRI SDE

Thanks everyone for the pointers.  I assume the Linux version compiles
with GCC.  From what I read, Visual Studio is needed for a win32
compile, which I do not have.  Any chance I could do this with GCC in
win32? 

Thanks again,

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com]
Sent: Thu, October 23, 2008 10:20 AM
To: Mullins, Steven
Cc: gdal-dev at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] Build OGR with ESRI SDE


Mullins, Steven wrote:
> I am interested in using OGR to read data from an ArcSDE (9.2-9.3)
database.
> The manual page at http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_sde.html indicates that
GDAL
> must be compiled "with the ESRI provided ArcSDE client libraries".
> 
> Before I sink a lot a time into this, can anyone share their
experience
> compiling OGR with ESRI libraries for SDE?  What specific steps need
to be
> taken to accomplish this?

Steve,

On linux this boils down to setting one or both of:

   --with-sde=DIR        Include ESRI SDE support (DIR is SDE's install
dir).
   --with-sde-version=VERSION NUMBER  Set ESRI SDE version number
(Default is 80)

when configuring.  On Windows setting of:

#SDE_ENABLED = YES
#SDE_VERSION=91
#SDE_PLUGIN = NO
#SDE_SDK = C:\arcgis\arcsde
#SDE_INC = $(SDE_SDK)\include
#SDE_LIB = $(SDE_SDK)\lib\pe$(SDE_VERSION).lib \
#          $(SDE_SDK)\lib\sde$(SDE_VERSION).lib 
$(SDE_SDK)\lib\sg$(SDE_VERSION).lib

in gdal/nmake.opt


I'd appreciate someone setting up a topic on SDE under:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/BuildHints

if interesting information is collected.

Best regards,
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