HELP: OCI/Oracle 8 problem with Internet Information Server

I am in serious need of help ...

I have a relatively simple program, written in VC 5, that I am trying to
use as a CGI "script." This program connects to an Oracle database using
the Oracle OCI calls.

It was running succesfully on WINDOWS NT with oracle client 7.3.4 .Now when i upgrade the server to windows 2003 with oracle 8.1.7 client ,(I am not able to install oracle client 7.3.4 on windows 2003).

The program fails when run through IIS with the following message:

CGI Error
The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of
HTTP headers. This indicates that the program is not even starting.

I built a simple test program to just display the HTML header. This works.

In my earlier application the oracle library that was being linked was ora73.lib Which is the equivalent library file for oracle 8.1.7 .?? I tried linking with ociw32.lib as I found the reference corresponding to this file in another discussion forum. However, if I link in the Oracle library(ociw32.LIB), even though I don't call any of the functions, then it fails

 Is the library loading some DLLs
before the program even starts? Is there some problem in doing that?

I am lost . Please help. I am not even able to get much information on the net.Any suggestion would help Received on Wed Mar 01 2006 - 02:33:42 CST