Re: Q: Oracle OCI and shared libraries

Doron Sherman wrote:
>
> My question is as follows:
>
> I'm a 3rd-party software developer who develops an application that
> talks to an Oracle 7 database. Oracle ships only static libraries
> which are pretty large and we try to avoid linking it to the program
> executable in order not to penalize users who connect to other DBs.
> I would like to know if Oracle ships shared libraries for 3rd-part
> developers and if these libraries can be shipped with our software
> to the end-user.
>
> Response to my email address will be appreciated.
>
> Doron\
>
> dorons_at_w3spider.com
> -------------------

The part about the shared libraries is not entirely true (depending on the hardware you work with. On our HP-9000, Oracle 7 comes with a shared library called 'liboracle.sl', which can be found in the dir. '$ORACLE_HOME/lib'. Might be what you're looking for.

Roald

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