Re: Q: Oracle OCI and shared libraries

From 7.2 on there is something called libclntsh.sl if you go to your ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib there should be a make file for that. most of the time called
clntsh.mk do a make -f clntsh.mk shlib or so then it ll generate the .sl file in ?/lib.

use this then to link your executables

eg cc -o myprogram myprogram.o $(LIBHOME)/libclntsh.sl `cat $(RLIB HOME)/sysliblist`"

it might vary a bit from system to system but this is the general idea. also oci libs are always with an oracle server for unix systems.. not on PCs there you need to install pro*c... if you want to compile with ProC you can set ORA_CLIENT_LIB=shared and run make -f proc.mk ....

cheers
Wim

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