Oracle SQL Developer

martinko gamato at users.sf.net
Sat Jan 19 08:31:46 PST 2008


martinko wrote:
> Marcin Cieslak wrote:
>> martinko wrote:
>>> Hallo,
>>>
>>> Would someone care to port Oracle's SQL Developer to FreeBSD, please ?
>>>
>>> <http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/sql_developer/index.html> 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance!
>>
>> There is actually nothing to port, just download the non-JRE platform
>> independent zip file, unpack and run "bash sqldeveloper" from
>> sqldeveloper/sqldeveloper/bin directory.
>>
>> Works for me (7.0-BETA3 on amd64, self-compiled sun jdk15 from ports).
>>
>> --Marcin
>>
> 
> 
> Well,
> 
> I've tried it on 6-STABLE (6.2.something) and it got stuck at splash 
> screen.  Btw, I've noticed output like this in terminal:
> 
> expr: illegal option -- X
> usage: expr [-e] expression
> expr: illegal option -- D
> usage: expr [-e] expression
> 
> Also, all the scripts use #!/bin/bash which doesn't work in FreeBSD.
> And I'd like to install it in /usr/local/... so that all users can use 
> it and it can be included in portaudit checks and checked for upgrades 
> via ports system, etc etc.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Martin
> 

Update:  Just upgraded to 6.3 and it started up successfully.  As soon 
as I have access to an Oracle instance I will try some more testing..

M.



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