Re: Getting OCI libs for linux

Tigra wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Sorry for asking a question possibly already described in faqs (though
> I couldn't find the answer ;( ).
> The matter is that I've downloaded
> "Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 3 (8.1.7.0.1) for Linux (Intel),
> with OPS".
> It's a 536 Mb tarball. I've found neither *.c, *.h, *.so, *.a nor
> *.{tgz,zip,gz} OCI files related in the distributive. I know that in
> 1997 there were no free OCI libraries/headers for Linux, but later
> posts to different newsgroups make me think that the situation has
> changed. Please guide me where can I get all the stuff to run my first
> DIY OCI based hello-world.
>

Oracle 8.1.7 for Linux is complete in the sense that it includes server software and basic client development software, especially OCI. The library is mainly just libclntsh.so. The headers can be found under $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms (sorry, I just have no 8.1.7 at hand at the moment).

Uwe

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