= Oracle for GDAL and Mapserver =

 * You need the Oracle Instant Client
   * For this tutorial we'll assume that's it is installed in {{{/opt/oracle/}}}

 * With gdal and mapserver installed do
 {{{
 sudo apt-get install libmsplugin-oracle-src libgdal-oci-src
 }}}
 * To install the GDAL plugin:
 {{{
 sudo gdal-oci-build /opt/oracle/sdk/include /opt/oracle/
 }}}
 The script takes 2 arguments, first is the path to the include directory and the second one is the path to the lib directory
 Now you should see OCI in ogrinfo --formats
 * To install the Mapserver plugin: 
   * We need to set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable first
   {{{
 export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/ 
   }}}
   * Then we run
   {{{
 sudo mapserver-oracle-build yes
   }}}
   * To use the Mapserver Oracle plugin you need to use the plugin connectiontype and specify the path to libmsplugin-oracle.so, like this
   {{{
 MAP
 ...
 CONNECTIONTYPE plugin
 PLUGIN "/usr/lib/msplugins/libmsplugin-oracle.so"
 ...
 END
   }}}