Hi Rob, No, you're not heading down the wrong path, you just need the Oracle **client** installed on your local machine.
When recompliling DBI and DBD make sure you've got the following set correctly (appropriate to your set up) ... ORACLE_HOME=/export/home/oracle/OraHome1 PATH=$PATH:/export/home/oracle/OraHome1/bin LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/export/home/oracle/OraHome1/lib Hope this helps. Rob "Robert Citek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello all, > > What would I need in order to write a perl script to query an Oracle database? > > I have written perl scripts to connect to MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. > In those cases, both the databases and the scripts were run on Red Hat > Linux v7.1/2. This time, I am trying to write a perl script that connects > to an Oracle database. The Oracle database is running on a Windows machine > whereas the perl script will be running on a Linux box (RH7.1/2). > > I have installed DBI v1.34 from source. Now I am ready to compile the > DBD-Oracle module. However, the README file suggests that I " ... > [i]nstall enough Oracle software to enable DBD::Oracle to build. That > usually includes Pro*C and SQL*Net." Do I really need to install Oracle 9i > in order to compile DBD::Oracle v1.14? Or am I heading down the wrong path > with the wrong module? If I do need Oracle 9i, how can I get just enough > to compile the DBD::Oracle module? > > Thanks in advance, > - Robert > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
