Re: NT/32bit OCI/Sqlnet

From: Carlos Orozco <76620,3050_at_compuserve.com>
Date: 1995/10/09
Message-ID: <45b1tp$lb8_at_dub-news-svc-4.compuserve.com>#1/1


In article <453fed$f76_at_northshore.shore.net>, extel_at_shore.net says...
>
>wenicp_at_itwol.bhp.com.au (wenicp) writes:
>
>>Can anyone tell me how I can get my hands on a 32bit dll/link library
>>for OCI. I'm attempting to write a 32bit program (under NT) to
 connect
>>to a remote Unix server (rs-6000, sqlnet v2). Oracle Australia don't
>>seem to be able to tell me what I need to buy to get my hands on
 this.
>>I hope I don't need to buy and NT version of Oracle 7 just to get
>>the DLL/link library.
 

>>I've got it working in 16 bit, but the $%^&* Oracle library requires
>>a 40K stack which leaves very little room for any real work.
 Therefore
>>I need a 32 bit solution
 

>>Thanks in advance.
>
>I think you have to install the Server on NT for it to create the oci
 .h
>files for you. At least that's what we did. You'll need libocic.a too.
>I guess you could call Oracle and ask them how much this costs or if
>they unbundle it, but I can't think an NT server licence costs too
 much
>anyway.

You can order the Pro*C precompiler for NT - it's designed for Visual C++ 2.1 and comes bundled with OCI libraries. The current production version on NT is 1.6 and 2.1 is in beta now. Received on Mon Oct 09 1995 - 00:00:00 CET

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