Re: Building DBD::Oracle with Oracle 10g



On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:45:01AM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> Just a quick note you might want to add to the README.clients file for
> DBD::Oracle ...
>
> To build DBD::Oracle against a minimally built/configured instalation of
> Oracle 10g 10.1, download and unzip the Instant Client from Oracle's web
> site and then either copy the libraries to somewhere your OS knows about
> or set LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Then sacrifice a goat and chant ...
>
> perl Makefile.PL -m $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo/demo_rdbms32.mk
>
> This is using Linux/x86 and perl 5.8.5. Presumably you'd substitute
> demo_rdbms64.mk on a 64 bit platform.

I'm glad that worked for you, but I suspect it's not a reliable recipe.
Better built-in support for Instant Client should be in the next release.

Tim.
.



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