Re: ProC on Linux machines

Hi Stan,

Stan Brown wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get Oracle setup on a couple of Linux machines. I've
> installed 8.1.6 on one, and 99.0.1 on another (brther does that nstall take
> forever, even on a 900MHZ PIII). I have working sample instances, and can
> use SQLNet to access each other. So far so good.
>
> Next I would like to get the Perl Oracle DBD driver working on these
> machines. In order to do this, I need to get ProC working.
>
> Unfortunately I cannot get either machine to compile the sample ProC files.
>

No. You don't need Pro*C in order to compile DBD::Oracle. This module is just a perl wrapper around OCI. Therefore you need a running C compiler, a clean Perl environment and a valid $ORACLE_HOME with the corresponging header files installed. That's all.

Uwe

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