[Qgis-developer] Adding SQL provider to QGIS

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi David,

On Tue, 02. Aug 2016 at 11:59:57 -0400, David Adler wrote:
> We developed DB2 support for QGIS using the ODBC driver that is
> built in to QGIS/Qt for Windows. But the ODBC driver isn't built in
> on other platforms and using ODBC on other platforms is sketchy.
> 
> Is it possible to build and use the Qt DB2 driver with QGIS and is
> there any documentation on how to do this?

Does the Qt DB2 driver have third party dependencies?

For the Oracle provider we have a modified QOCI driver that is built with QGIS
when it's dependencies are available, but that usually not the case on
platforms other than (osgeo4)Windows either.


Jürgen

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