Mapserver and ArcSDE: issues on compiling and connecting to

[Francesco Sozzi]

Hi Andreas,

Many thanks for your detailed suggestions.
I will try them as soon as my ArcSde customers will be ready for test.

Best regards

Francesco

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Albarello" <andreas.albarello at TERRITORIUMONLINE.COM>
To: <MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mapserver and ArcSDE: issues on compiling 
and connecting to


> Francesco,
>
>> 1) to compile Mapserver enabling ArcSDE do I need an ArcSDE licence or is 
>> it enough to have it installed (and of course not running)?
>
> to just *compile* MapServer with ArcSDE support all you need are three or 
> four import library files (.a or .lib, depending on your operating 
> system). Those files tell MapServer that all the specific functions 
> required to connect to an ArcSDE database are located in some dynamic link 
> library/shared object (.dll or .so) files. These dynamic link/shared 
> object files are then required when you execute MapServer.
> So, in order to compile as well as to execute a copy of MapServer with 
> ArcSDE support you don't even need to have ArcSDE installed on that 
> particular machine.
>
>> 2) is it possible to download from somewhere ArcSDE files required for 
>> compiling for free?
>
> As far as I know, those files are *not* available for free. They ship with 
> each copy of ArcSDE and are included one of those seven or eight disks 
> which is labeled "Client" or "C API". AFAIK, they don't get installed with 
> the common ArcSDE setup procedure.
>
>> 3) to make Mapserver connect to a remote ArcSDE server, do I need install 
>> some sort of client on the Mapserver machine?
>
> You don't need a particular client to connect to an ArcSDE server 
> (independently on whether it is local or remote), you just need to ensure 
> that on every machine running your copy of MapServer a copy of those 
> dll/so files is available as well. They themselves act as client.
>
>> 4) is it possibnle to get this sort of client for free or do I neeed to 
>> buy a licence?
>>
>
> Same as above: import libraries as well as dynamic link libraries ship 
> with each copy of ArcSDE. Therefore you just need a regular ArcSDE 
> package.
>
>> Thanks for help and best regards
>>  Francesco Sozzi
>
> Best regards,
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