Re: ocilib for MacOSX/9iR2

From: Kent Brockman <brockman_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:42:23 +0100
Message-ID: <3DE341FF.9030803@xs4all.nl>

Jan,

        thank you for your reply.

The way I have set things up is that I use one machine for development. This is the only one that meets the requirements for running Oracle. I use another to test my applications. The separation helps to keep track of dependencies, so I am sure what a customer needs to have installed.

I can, as you suggest, do both on one machine. However, this will not be the setup that my customer can use. They will have about ten users working on MacOSX. The customer hasn't decided yet on what platform the server will be running. Will they be able to run things I develop, too?

My customer is very specific in their choices, given even that have no technical background. Their requirements include using ODBC from carbon, even while the host application (QuarkXPress) isn't carbonized yet. I have offered alternatives (e.g. a Java/JDBC database interface module communicating with an XTension through some inter-process communication method). So far they have listened patiently. They are studying the proposals they received and I will only hear next week who gets the job.

Yesterday I started using the OpenLinkSW ODBC for development (so far I have only used the test application that comes with the distribution). For this I used an application that I wrote three years ago for classic MacOS. Since then I had this application carbonized, but with ODBC left out. It turned out to be very simple. I just needed to link to the ODBC CFM bridge and it worked without even changing a single line of code (ok, one: setting #define useODBC to 1). Thumbs up for OpenLink ODBC. The application runs, but I still do not have a database to develop against.

Eddy Walet
PTH Jan Csisko wrote:

> Hello Kent,
> 
> unfortunately I can still not provide you with a URL on where to find
> the
> Oracle 8i Client for Mac OS X.
> 
> Also, you might be interested in the fact that in case you consider
> one installation on your DB Server machine, you woul dbe able to work
> with the Macintosh Clients which would (in this case) not require the
> Oracle 8i
> Client.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Regards,
> Jan
> 
> Kent Brockman <Brockman_at_channelsix.news> wrote in message news:<3DD96489.2030809_at_channelsix.news>...
> 

>>Hi,
>>
>> I have succesfully installed the developer release of oracle 9iR2 on
>>MacOSX 10.2 "Jaguar".
>>
>>I want to use this database from ODBC clients. When looking into one of
>>the options for ODBC (from OpenLink) I noticed that their lite driver
>>depends on ocilib. According to OpenLink is this a part that is missing
>>in the 9i distribution and I should get it from th 8i distribution.
>>Problem is: where do I get it?
>>
>>Does anyone know where and how to get this? Either from the Oracle site
>>or someplace else.
>>
>>I need to review the ODBC connection for a project that I am
>>negotiating. The customer wants to run oracle on Windows and the clients
>>on MacOSX. Without this part I (and I think no-one) can build what the
>>customer is asking.
>>
>>Thanks for any information,
>>Eddy Walet
>>PTH
>>
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Received on Tue Nov 26 2002 - 03:42:23 CST