[Qgis-developer] [QGIS 2.5.0 MASTER][Linux Mint 64-bit] - Missing Oracle Spatial icon?

[João Gaspar]

HI again, thank you guys for your time :)

Richard you talk abou a post, what about a chapter to put in QGIS
documentation? :P

Let me know if you want help for the post, i'm short of time but i can
always find a little of time to help :)

Regards
João

2014-10-20 20:26 GMT+01:00 Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>:

> On 19-10-14 16:37, João Gaspar wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I open the recent QGIS master and i don't find the Oracle Spatial icon.
> >
> > In the Plugin Manager only appears the Oracle Raster in installed
> plugins.
> >
> > Can anyone confirm this? Is the same for the other OS?
>
> Hi João,
>
> for Windows I know the Oracle provider is part of the osgeo4w install
> (and I think also in the standalone installer, but not 100% sure).
>
> Only if you have this Oracle spatial provider included you will see the
> little blue oval meaning the Oracle provider is available.
>
> Most linux repositories do not have the Oracle provider in their QGIS
> binaries, probably because of license troubles.
>
> Some time ago with some help of Martin I was able to build QGIS on
> Debian with Oracle Spatial provider.
>
> For more info see this thread.
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2014-August/034195.html
>
> My plan is/was to write some a blogpost about it but....
>
> Anyway, some info for now:
>
> You have to register with Oracle and download the instant client
> packages, via
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/linuxx86-64soft-092277.html
>
> - instantclient basiclite linux
>
> http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/instantclient/121020/instantclient-basiclite-linux.x64-12.1.0.2.0.zip
>
> - instantclient sdk linux
>
> http://download.oracle.com/otn/linux/instantclient/121020/instantclient-sdk-linux.x64-12.1.0.2.0.zip
>
> see also instruction from Martin. But unzip those, and then configure
> your compile/build with -DWITH_ORACLE=TRUE
>
> for me the magic lines were:
>
> export
>
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/richard/dev/oracle/12.1/instantclient_12_1/libclntsh.so.12.1
>
>
>  ccmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/richard/apps/qgis/masteroracle/debug··
> -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/include/python2.7
> -DPYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so i
> -DWITH_ORACLE=TRUE
>
> -DOCI_INCLUDE_DIR=/home/richard/dev/oracle/12.1/instantclient_12_1/sdk/include·
>
> -DOCI_LIBRARY=/home/richard/dev/oracle/12.1/instantclient_12_1/libclntsh.so.12.1
> ..
>
> And voila, you have your Oracle Spatial icon ;-)
>
> As said, I hope to find some time to do this again and then blog about
> it (though I 'lost' my Oracle db, if somebody has a online test db
> available, please let me know).
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
>
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