[Qgis-user] Can't Add Oracle Spatial Vector Layer with QGIS 2.0 on Mac OSx

[William Kyngesburye]

Now I remember another reason(s) why I stopped supporting Oracle (in GDAL)...

Attitude - registration I can deal with, but requiring full business contact info is too much.

They STILL don't know how to name OS X libraries.  As is, cmake will not find them.  Neither will standard configure scripts (ie GDAL).  This means renaming the libraries (and fixing the internal linking) and organizing the libraries and headers to build for them.  But while end-users could do the same library renaming without much fuss, the internal link fixing requires a tool from Xcode, which defeats the point of installing prebuilt binaries.

I don't really want to deal with this. :(

On Oct 22, 2013, at 9:25 AM, chris marx wrote:

> Ok, Thanks for the heads up. I've been using the Oracle instant client as well as Oracle Sql Developer with no problems on my mac. I think the OCI libraries come with the instant client?
> 
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/intel-macsoft-096467.html 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 10:18 AM, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> I figured someone else would have a good answer.  I wasn't aware of the new Oracle driver, and when you mentioned it I thought it was self-contained or used GDAL.
> 
> But now that I look at it closer, I did not build QGIS with Oracle support (it's direct support, not thru GDAL).  I gave up on the OCI libraries for OSX a long time ago, but maybe they've caught up recently.  I'll look into it.  There's nothing you can do to get the existing build to work.
> 
> On Oct 22, 2013, at 8:47 AM, chris marx wrote:
> 
> > In case anyone wants to earn a bounty over at stackexchange, I've gotten no responses, so I've offered one-
> >
> > http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/74842/add-oracle-spatial-vector-layer-with-qgis-2-0-on-mac-osx
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 5:15 PM, chris marx <chrismarx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I installed version 2.0 using the recommended mac installer (http://www.kyngchaos.com/software/qgis), and the installation went fine, but there is no option to add an oracle spatial layer(not in the layer dropdown, or the sidebar buttons). I assume this has to do with gdal configuration, but I'm not sure how to fix that. I have the oracle instant client installed, and I can connect to oracle with sqlplus. Has anyone been able to get the new support for oracle to work on a Mac (Lion)?
> > Thanks,
> > Chris-
> >
> >
> > PS - stackexchange link - http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/74842/add-oracle-spatial-vector-layer-with-qgis-2-0-on-mac-osx
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