Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 11:35:15 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Quirk <squirk@home.com> To: Max Khon <fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru> Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to run OCI FreeBSD Program to access Oracle database? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011211131130.27781-100000@cc677580-a.sumt1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011211039320.17885-100000@iclub.nsu.ru>
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Now I'm confused. Are these native FreeBSD libraries or are they for SCO and need to be run with IBCS emulation (or whatever)? What was the process for "converting" them from COFF to ELF and does this remove any SCO dependencies? What's the origin of these? Did Oracle ever support FreeBSD? Thanks, Steve On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Max Khon wrote: > hi, there! > > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tom Samplonius wrote: > > > > > There are native OCI (aout) libraries out there: > > > > ftp://www.kuzbass.ru/pub/freebsd/oracle/oracle7.client.OCI.tar.gz > > > > > > ahem, sorry, ELF libraries > > > > Are you sure they are ELF? After grabbing this, all I see are *.a > > files, which I believe are neither ELF or aout. I don't see any shared > > libraries (*.so). I know for certain that shared libraries are aout and > > ELF specific, but I don't think *.a files are. > > yes. .o files in archives have ELF header and symbols do not have > leading underscores > > > For everyone else, the above file seems to contain a snapshot of the > > client libs for FreeBSD taken from an Oracle 7.3.2 system. No FreeBSD > > version of SQL*Plus though. Lots of messages files and *.sql files which > > are useless without the server binaries though. The log subdirectory > > contains a log file. Presumably the log file of the server this snapshot > > was made from! > > sorry, I do not maintain that site. > I can put libraries-only tarball (it's about only 2M) available for > download. I think those libraries were made by converting SCO Oracle 7 > libraries (COFF/i386) to ELF format > > /fjoe > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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