Re: Oracle on Linux - a recipe

Victor Wagner wrote:

> Jan Andersen (root_at_127.0.0.1) wrote:
> : Installing Oracle 7.3.3 on Linux 2.0.29
 

> : As I stated above, this is just a crude cook book description. It doesn't
> : tell you how to use Oracle when it's installed - maybe I, or someone else
> : will include this later. Oracle's own documentation is quite huge, to say
>
> But its is critical - why would I sacrifice so much memory and disk space
> to Oracle just to run sqlplus shell? Does anybody now, is it possible to
> compile something using OCI libraries under linux. (I can tolerate having
> second copy of all my favorite scripting languange interpreters, compilied
> in COFF or whatever format, if they would interface oracle, although
> I prefer this interfaces to be loadable package for my current interpreters)
>

I can't see why this shouldn't be possible provided you can use the libs - Ihave no experience with that. My own goal has been to make an Oracle server that I could offer to our local network via SQL*Net - this is what I have described. At some point of time in the future I may want to make OCI programs for Linux, but I can't make any promises. I believe there is a way to do it eg. via Perl, but I don't remember the reference.

/jan

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