Installing Oracle Client 10g on FreeBSD

[Scott T. Hildreth]

On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 17:18 +0300, Vladimir Terziev wrote:
> 	I'm also interested of mixing native FreeBSD libraries and Linux once, if it's possible ...
> 
> 	I tryed to install a DBD::Oracle module with natively build FreeBSD perl and Linux Oracle Instantclient. After some hacking of DBD::Oracle's make file, i managed to build native Oracle.so linked against Instantclient's libcltnsh.so library.
> 
> 	When i tryed "use DBD::Oracle" in a perl script i got "Segmentation fault".
> 	I don't think it's possible to intermix native FreeBSD libraries and Linux once used by a native FreeBSD executable.

          I didn't either, but I am going to try. :-)

          Martin, how did you do this?


> 
> 		Vladimir
> 
> 
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 08:55:45 -0500
> "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildret at scotth.emsphone.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 11:30 +0200, Martin Hudec wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> > > >    He can't, DBD::Oracle uses oci underneath so he needs the Oracle client to get the shared 
> > > >    libraries.   Mike you also need to compile or install a linux perl and then install DBI & DBD::Oracle
> > > >    with the linux perl.  You could use DBD::Proxy instead of installing DBD::Oracle.  It installed
> > > >     with DBI.  Type 'perldoc DBD::Proxy' to see the docs.  If you need help, you can email me 
> > > >    or join the dbi-users at perl.org.
> > > 
> > > Not fully correct - when I wanted to use DBD::Oracle, I did not need to 
> > > install linux-perl - just instantclient (linux compatibility enabled) as 
> > > Martinko mentioned. And it worked. And DBD::Oracle has been used with 
> > > native perl.
> > 
> >   Interesting, I have not used the instantclient.  I always have a full 
> >   Oracle install, since I need the database.  I will try that, 
> >   DBD::Oracle must not be linking with the libcltnsh.so.
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Martin
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