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
