Re: Help installing Perl DBI:Oracle on Solaris?

Dan Zerkle <dzerkle_at_us.ibm.com> writes:

The only reason you need Pro*C installed is so that the DBI module can use the headers and libraries. It shouldn't need the Sun compiler unless you intend to use the Pro*C pre-compiler fully to develop applications.

Although I haven't actually installed it on Solaris, I have successfully compiled, installed and used it on Windows NT using Cygwin & GCC.

Regards
Paul

> My admin is having some trouble installing the Oracle DBD Perl module so
> that I can access an Oracle database using Perl from Solaris.
>
> From looking at the documentation for the Oracle DBD, it appears that I
> need the Pro*C thingie from Oracle installed first (whatever that is).
> Looking at the Oracle 8 documentation, it appears that the Pro*C
> thingie needs a special Sun compiler called SPARCworks. We, of course,
> have gcc.
>
> Do I have this correct? Do I really have to go through all these
> gyrations to use an Oracle database from Perl (I really need to do
> this)? Is gcc good enough?
>
> I'm not the admin, and he's no expert on Oracle, Solaris, or Perl, so
> use small words, please.
Received on Sat Nov 13 1999 - 03:25:18 CET