On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 3:05 PM, catel1 <[email protected]> wrote: > > My company's System-admin installed Ruby and Gems (using Sun Coolstack > package) and I have sudo access to ruby, gem etc. Now I need to get my > app to talk to oracle db (through network). > From what I understand, it requires three steps: > Step 1: Install oracle instant client ( I installed it in my ~/oracle/ > instantclient_11_1) > Step2: Install OCI8 libraries (this is where I am stuck). Here is the > error message: > ***********ERROR MESSAGE*************** > > bash-3.00$ sudo gem install ruby-oci8 > Building native extensions. This could take a while... > checking for cc... *** extconf.rb failed ***
This is because you're missing Ruby dev libraries. In my setup I have these set: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ORACLE_HOME=/home/oracle > C compiler doesn't work correctly. Looks like you need a compiler too. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
