[Qgis-user] use ESRI file geodatabase format in QGIS + gdal 1.9

[Rainer M Krug]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Even Rouault
<even.rouault at mines-paris.org>wrote:

> Le mercredi 12 octobre 2011 21:38:20, karsten a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I was wondering if the ESRI file geodatabase format now can be used with
> > QGIS because gdal/ogr 1.9 apparently contains that driver ..?
> >
> > So the question is whether I would e able use a file geodatabase in a (if
> > needed custom built ) QGIS when I would have a gdal 1.9 compiled with
> file
> > geodatabase support on my system or would there need to be additional
> > changes to the QGIS itself needed to enable this ?
>
> No change required in QGIS. It's abstracted by OGR API. It works already
> provided that you build GDAL against the FileGDB SDK and link QGIS against
> this GDAL build.
>

Is it possible to do this dynamically, i.e. without recompiling / installing
QGIS?

So can I change gdal dynamically?

Rainer



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