Re: Compiler Questions

From: DriftWood <drift_wood_at_my-deja.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:36:56 GMT
Message-ID: <91d6po$qsg$1@nnrp1.deja.com>

Oracle is not providing a compiler, but a precompiler. This allows you to embed SQL & PL/SQL into your C/C++ code and then generate the appropriate C/C++ code (which will use calls to an intermediate library called the SQLLIB) to access the RDBMS data. you can always use OCI calls directly in whatever compiler you chose, assuming that Oracle is providing OCI libraries that will work with your compiler on your platform of choice. The OCI headers/libraries are normally bundled with the Oracle Programmer package these days, although they used to simply be included with the server bundle on unix.

The OCI libraries from Oracle, for Solaris, are compatible with GNU, but you will not be able to use the Oracle provided make files unmodified as they specify compiler options that are specific to the Solaris compiler.

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  DW

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