Calling an Oracle Form from a C program in Unix

From: Arnab Nandi <arnab_nandi_at_infy.com>
Date: 29 Aug 2001 02:58:30 -0700
Message-ID: <46703bcc.0108290158.16f00902_at_posting.google.com>

Hi Everybody,
I have a C program to launch an Oracle Forms from a C program without the use of execvp() or system(). I am using ifzcal() provided by Oracle to do so. But I cannot find the library where ifzcal() is defined and so cannot compile the C program to the executable. Below is the C program I am using.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "ifzcal.h"

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{

    int len = 0, i = 0;
    int stat;
    char *buffer; /* buffer is the string that will be submitted in IFZCAL */
    char formname[150];

    buffer = (char *)calloc(2000, sizeof(char));

    for (i = 1; i < argc; i++){

      strcat(buffer, argv[i]);
      strcat(buffer, " ");

    }
    printf("%s", buffer);
    len = strlen(buffer);
    stat = ifzcal(buffer,len);
}

Problem is how do I link it to the appropriate library? Any help in this regard is welcome.

Arnab Received on Wed Aug 29 2001 - 11:58:30 CEST