[mapserver-dev] Oracle Plugin - Does it work (linux)?

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Mike,

You're too fast for me ha (I wanted to re-test with a local Oracle 
server, so I'm still modifying tnsnames.ora etc, you know that fun ha), 
but indeed for MS4W 5.0 I set -DWITH_ORACLESPATIAL=1   (MS4W has always 
been designed to connect to Oracle natively, not as a plugin, and I have 
no plans to change that - "if it ain't broke don't fix it" ha)

PS. that reminds me, I've seen recently a MapServer user report that 
plugins were slower in performance - yes I know this is hard to believe 
& has no proof, but I always listen to the feedback of users, they are 
not crazy.


-jeff


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Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, MapServer Consulting and Training
co-founder of FOSS4G
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On 2022-04-09 11:33 a.m., Michael Smith wrote:
> Well, I got it working by instead compiling     -DWITH_ORACLESPATIAL=1 
> and then just rebuilding mapserv and installing that on top of the 
> mapserver conda package. I'm going to say that the Oracle plugin doesn't 
> work on linux. The DLL plugin still might be windows specific.
> 
> If anyone is interested, I can write up a small post on how to just 
> rebuild mapserver for Oracle on top of the conda-forge mapserver package.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
>