[Qgis-user] FW: Esri File Geodatabase API Is Now Available

[William Kyngesburye]

On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:

> I'm positive they are binary *.so. The more important development is
> http://www.gdal.org/ogr/drv_filegdb.html
> 
> Which means yes support could be available soon via gdal/ogr.
> 
> I just grabbed it real quick and it looks like this format is going to
> be like Mrsid and ECW where individual users will need to get the files
> and patch their gdal installs.
> 
> The download has 2 .so files and a directory of .h files which I believe
> are API samples.
> 
> The author of the gdal driver is a Mac user though so we should follow
> up with him about if he's found a way to get it to work on MAC.
> 
The only way it can work natively on OS X is if ESRI made OS X libraries available (they didn't) or source available (they didn't).  It could be done on virtualized Linux, but no Mac programs would be able to use it.

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