Re: Irix: n32 vs o32 linking

Ronnie,   

Oracle does not support n32 as of yet. There is a plan to possibly compile
and work with n32 client libraries in the future. Right now the only supported client is -32 or old 32. You may want to talk to your sales rep and tell him how badly you want n32 to help push the issue but right now even if you install the 64bit release clients are still old 32 bit. Relinking with SGI_ABI set to -n32 will not work because the client libraries are -32 so you will get messages telling you that you are trying to link old 32 with new 32 when linking. Sounds like the third party vendor needs to send you old 32 bit version of their libraries.

If there is an n32 release it probably will be around 8.1 if I had to guess.

Ronnie Braverman wrote:
>
> We are writing an application with quite a number of third
> party libraries, all of which have been compiled and linked
> with n32 option on the SGI. This application needs to
> use Oracle libraries for embedded SQL, but we suddenly find
> that Oracle libraries have been compiled and archived with
> n32. Oracle support have suggested that we set the
> env variable SGI_ABI to -n32 and reinstall Oracle, but
> this has not worked, since it seems that some of the object
> files that come with Oracle are o32 (we have Oracle 8.0.3).
> Anyone had the same problem and solved it?
> Regards,
> Ronnie
> ps note that we are trying to make Oracle n32, not o32 which
> is easy.
Received on Wed Jul 15 1998 - 21:19:31 CDT