Hi:
I'm not sure if this is a right place to ask this question so please
forward to whom it may concern.
I had installed ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 on WinXP and installed latest DBI
and DBD-Oracle using their ppm3.
The DBD-Oracle seemed to work fine, but see this link for exact problems
I was having with Oracle Client software throwing errors and not working:
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=307903&tstart=0
DBD-Oracle installed "oraociei10.dll" version 10.1.0.4.0 and it
conflicts with the newer Oracle 10.2.0 Client installation.
I replaced the "c:\perl\bin\oraociei10.dll" with newer version
10.2.0.1.0 from
"C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\client_1\instantclient\oraociei10.dll" which
can be found by installing latest 10g client from
http://download.oracle.com/otn/nt/oracle10g/10201/10201_client_win32.zip
The DBD-Oracle still works and now my Oracle client software (Oracle
Enterprise Manager and sqlplus both work!
How do we get this newer Oracle instantclient dll to be the one that
gets installed with DBD-Oracle on Windows platforms?
Is this an ActiveState issue only or does it possibly affect other win32
installs of perl on Windows?
How can we avoid this problem in the future by keeping the
"instantclient\oraociei10.dll" file that gets installed during the
DBD-Oracle install UP-TO-DATE?
My problem is solved, unless this newer file adds some "voodoo" to how
DBD-Oracle should work. It seems to work fine in my testing, but I
thought I should ask here to make sure dropping in this newer dll is kosher.
Thanks,
Lawrence K. Hixson
Oracle DBA
National Weather Service HQ
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Donor Relations Chair
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