Re: Help installing Perl DBI:Oracle on Solaris?

If your Sun box is not the DB server, you will need to only install the client SW and the Pro*C potion Oracle.

gcc will work fine for compiling DBD and DBI.

Dan Zerkle wrote:

> My admin is having some trouble installing the Oracle DBD Perl module so
> that I can access an Oracle database using Perl from Solaris.
>
> From looking at the documentation for the Oracle DBD, it appears that I
> need the Pro*C thingie from Oracle installed first (whatever that is).
> Looking at the Oracle 8 documentation, it appears that the Pro*C
> thingie needs a special Sun compiler called SPARCworks. We, of course,
> have gcc.
>
> Do I have this correct? Do I really have to go through all these
> gyrations to use an Oracle database from Perl (I really need to do
> this)? Is gcc good enough?
>
> I'm not the admin, and he's no expert on Oracle, Solaris, or Perl, so
> use small words, please.
Received on Sun Nov 14 1999 - 01:11:09 CET