[FWTools] OpenEV needing sde91.dll - not found?

[Matt Wilkie]

Hello Sjur,

The error is annoying but harmless unless you need to access ArcSDE data 
stores. If you don't need to access SDE simply re-install fwtools and 
don't check the acrdsde plugin box.

Using the ArcSDE Raster plugin requires 3 dlls (sde91.dll, sg91.dll, 
pe91.dll) from the ArcSDE SDK from ESRI to be in %PATH%. If you have any 
ESRI products installed you likely have those somewhere in "C:\Program 
Files\ArcGIS" or "C:\ESRI\AV_GIS30" already.

If you don't own any ESRI programs with these dlls you'll need to 
purchase a Software Developers Kit. For v9.1 it used to be called 
"ArcSDE Developers Kit". With v9.2 they've renamed and moved everything 
about so I'm not sure what you need to buy, probably a subscription to 
the ESRI Developers Network but you should talk to someone who knows for 
sure before whipping out your credit card.

Frank/Howard: I suggest the name for this plugin in the installer window 
be changed from "ArcSDE Raster" to "ArcSDE Raster (requires extra 
software)" or "ArcSDE Raster (see SDE-ReadMe.txt)" or similar to avoid 
confusion with new users.

Long term, it would be better to be able to install plugins seperately 
from the main fwtools bundle. I'm thinking of the way it is easy to 
add/remove python modules like ipython independantly from python itself.

cheers,

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matt wilkie
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