> On Oct 9, 2017, at 3:52 PM, John R Pierce <pie...@hogranch.com> 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. > > This used to work, but I've not been down these bunny trails for years and > years : http://search.cpan.org/~aburlison/Solaris-PerlGcc-1.3/pod/perlgcc.pod > ... you also need to make sure you installed the full oracle developer stuff > as part of the client.
With Instant Client you have to install the Basic and the SDK packages. The latter gets the developer header files and libs that DBD::Oracle uses to compile the c code. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs
