"Can't load Oracle.dll" is often a symptom for a missing OCIW32.DLL.
Oracle.dll loads OCIW32.DLL at startup, if that fails, loading
Oracle.DLL fails, hence the error message.
OCIW32.DLL is provided by the Oracle client software, newer Versions of
Oracle install this DLL only(?) when you choose to install the Oracle
ODBC drivers. The directory containing OCIW32.DLL must be listed in the
PATH environment variable.
Unfortunately, some third party software comes with a very ancient
version of OCIW32.DLL, often installed into the windows\system32 or
windows\system directory. Rename or remove that DLL.
Alexander
On 18.07.2006 18:39, Rohit V Bhute wrote:
I was using Perl 5.6.x (ActiveState Windows port) to connect to Oracle
9i. The modules used then were DBI 1.48 and DBD-Oracle 1.16. I have
now upgraded to Perl 5.8.8 with DBI 1.50 and DBD-Oracle 1.17. The
upgrade was necessitated by the WWW::Babelfish module. Now while I'm
able to use Babelfish properly, my Perl scripts are not able to
connect to the Oracle database. The message send to the browser is as
follows:
<cut>
install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load
'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll' for module DBD::Oracle:
load_file:The specified module could not be found at
C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
at (eval 19) line 3
Compilation failed in require at (eval 19) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
at C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/iLCLP/iLP_Lgn.pl
line 270
</cut>
While this is a frequent problem as seen by Google results, solutions
are rare. Any hints would be welcome.
TIA.
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Alexander Foken
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