Re: Perl DBI libraries for connecting 12c

Lincoln A Baxter <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Oct 2017 21:32:09 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.general
Organization	Lincoln Baxter
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On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 15:52 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 10/9/2017 2:49 PM, Furst, Carl wrote:
> > I believe you have to go to Oracle to get those.. You can get DBI and even DBB::Oracle but it won’t build. You won’t have the Oracle C libs to link off of. You’ll need to install an oracle client library.
> 
> 
> as I recall, to use CPAN and build modules that work with the Solaris 
> Perl, you have to have the Sun/Oracle Studio C compiler (formerly called 
> Forte), not GCC, unless you leap through some hoops.

You can solve this problem by building your own perl with gcc.  It's
not that hard.
After build, install it in a location on path (actually you pick the
install location has part of configuring the build).
Then you can build the DBI, and DBD::oracle.  You do need to have the
oracle client libraries and headers (which you have to get from
Oracle).

Lincoln