Re: Problem Linking to LDAP C SDK and Oracle

Dennis Darch wrote:
> I want to enable our application to function as an LDAP client that can 
> connect to servers either with SSL or without it.  The program also accesses 
> a database using either Oracle 10g, Oracle 9i, or SQL Server 2005 native API 
> libraries.  This program is built for MS Windows (2000, XP, and 2003), Sun 
> Solaris (8, 9, and 10), and HP-UX (11i).  I am using the Mozilla LDAP C SDK 
> 6.0.4, NSS 3.11.9 and NSPR 4.7.
> 
> This works fine when I build it for Windows and Oracle 10g.  But when I 
> build for Solaris and Oracle 10g, the LDAP API does not work.
> 
> To isolate the problem I have built a simple LDAP demo program that calls 
> ldap_init() (or ldapssl_client_init() followed by ldapssl_init() ), then 
> ldap_simple_bind_s() followed by ldap_unbind().  If I just link my test 
> program to the LDAP C SDK shared objects, it works fine (both with and 
> without SSL).
> 
> But if I also link (but do not call) a single Oracle ProC module and the 
> relevant Oracle 10g libraries (all of which are *.a archives, not shared 
> *.so objects), then the test program fails.  It appears that the calls to 
> ldap_init(), ldapssl_client_init(), ldapssl_init(), ldap_err2string(), and 
> ldapssl_err2string() never enter the code in the SDK *.so objects but always 
> return a zero value.  Both debug fprintf(stderr) calls inserted into the SDK 
> code and Sun Workshop 6.0 (Forte Developer 6) attempts to step into the SDK 
> routines show that they are bypassed.  This happens whether everything is 
> built for debug or optimized.
> 
> Is this a known problem?  Is there some way to work around it?

Is it possible that the oracle libraries define these functions?  I know 
oracle has their own ldap support.

> 
> Dennis Darch
> SofTech, Inc.
> 
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