Try looking in your Oracle documentation under Start-programs-Oracle for
(OS)-Oracle 8 Documentation. This is a very good source of help, It is HTML
based and include a (mostly works) search engine.
You can't go wrong.
RTFM
Greg.
"Brian Peasland" <peasland_at_edcmail.cr.usgs.gov> wrote in message
news:38510F25.8BB96285_at_edcmail.cr.usgs.gov...
> I last used Pro*C in college so I am not an expert on this, but here
> goes.
>
> > However, I can't really find information about how to invoke... I have
> > Oracle Enterprise Edition (which I assumed included Pro*C). But can't
> > find any information about how to start the compiler.
>
> After you have created your program, you run the program against the
> Pro*C compiler. When in school, we created the program with a .pc
> extension. Then we issued "proc prog.pc" from the command line. We were
> doing this on a Unix platform. On my NT machine, I have proc.exe,
> proc22.exe and a gui interface one called procui22.exe all found in
> $ORACLE_HOME/bin.
>
> > and Pro*C would generate some lower level C code which I could compile
> > with ?any ANSI-C Compiler?
> >
> > Any help finding Pro*C on my system (I know, stupid request...) and
> > clearing up that final compiler question, would be greatly appreciated.
>
> After running the .pc file in the Pro*C compiler, a file was generated
> called "prog.c". On our Unix platform, we just issued "make prog.c" and
> used the system's C compiler. An executable was created which we just
> ran. That was all we had to do.
>
> I'm assuming that you can use any C compiler. But I'm sure that Oracle
> doesn't support all of them. You might need to include the appropriate
> .h files in your program. On my NT machine, they appear to be in
> $ORACLE_HOME\PRO22\WIN16\C\INCLUDE.
>
> HTH,
> Brian
Received on Mon Dec 13 1999 - 07:21:51 CST
