On Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:05:10 +0100 Mateusz Loskot <[email protected]> wrote:

ML> Do you simply download the .zip packages (i.e. into /opt), then
ML> 
ML> unzip instantclient-basic-linux-11.2.0.3.0.zip
ML> unzip instantclient-sdk-linux-11.2.0.3.0.zip
ML> 
ML> getting all files unpacked into:
ML> 
ML> /opt/instantclient_11_2
ML> 
ML> That seems to be the canonical way Oracle expects users
ML> to install the Instant Client (whatever the prefix, /opt or other).
ML> 
ML> Do you install it this way?

 Yes, this is what I did. To be honest, I have zero knowledge of Oracle so
I have no idea if it was the right thing to do but it worked for me.

ML> Certainly, without requirement of setting ORACLE_HOME,
ML> as the InstantClient does not require this env variable

 I don't think it's a big problem to require setting ORACLE_HOME, provided
it's clearly documented (ideally by giving an error message if it's not set
telling what it should be set to). But I also think that I compiled SOCI
successfully without setting it but by setting ORACLE_INCLUDE and
ORACLE_LIBRARY manually. The latter was not obvious however as it must
contain several libraries (libclntsh.so, libnnz11.so and libocci.so I
believe). Again, I am far from being sure that this was the right thing to
do but it seemed to have worked... It was some time ago though (when I was
first evaluating SOCI) so I'm not sure if it still works with the current
sources.

 Regards,
VZ

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