Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:46:02 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: "F.Xavier Noria" <fxn@retemail.es> Cc: Pascal Giannakakis <CapM@gmx.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle 8 clients on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020620144602.GB7928@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020620130224.10bdfc43.fxn@retemail.es> References: <19860.1024566084@www24.gmx.net> <20020620130224.10bdfc43.fxn@retemail.es>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In the last episode (Jun 20), F.Xavier Noria said: > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:41:24 +0200 (MEST) > Pascal Giannakakis <CapM@gmx.net> wrote: > : does anybody of you use Oracle 8 in a production-env? I'm so sick > : of my SuSE-Linux workstation here at work, i could throw this crap > : out of the window... I want to install FreeBSD, however, i need > : Oracle 8 clients. Will it work without problems, if i follow the > : instructiuons in the handbook? > > As for the clients, I uncompressed a Linux tarball under /home/oracle > and worked fine out of the box, which means here that sqlplus could > connect to a remote database. > > Take into account, however, that FreeBSD native executables cannot > use Linux libraries and there is no OCI library for FreeBSD. So if > you are going to need to write in that machine, say, a Perl program > that has to use the database you'll have a hard time. I installed > Red Hat's perl but couldn't build DBD::Oracle. I needed to switch to > Debian at work because of that. I've always wondered if the Oracle JDBC driver could be used natively under FreeBSD; Oracle claims they are "100% pure Java", so you should be able to set up some sort of C/Perl/Whatever -> ODBC -> JDBC -> Oracle link, with all but the Oracle component being native FreeBSD. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20020620144602.GB7928>