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

[chris marx]

Hi,
 Ok, thanks for taking a look. Given that I'm just getting started with
QGIS, I'm a little lost on where to start with how I would do this then on
my own? Any pointers?
Thanks,
Chris-


On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 8:00 PM, William Kyngesburye
<woklist at kyngchaos.com>wrote:

> 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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