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Oracle ODBC driver for UnixODBC
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                           Easysoft Oracle ODBC Driver

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For installation and configuratoion instructions please refer to the INSTALL 

file.



Prerequisites

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The prerequisites for building the Oracle ODBC Driver as as follows.



 o Oracle Call Interface header files.

   The OCI headers are usually located in $ORACLE_HOME/rdmbs/demo of the 

   server.

   You may also require the header files from $ORACLE_HOME/network/public

   and $ORACLE_HOME/plsql/public



 o libclntsh, the main Oracle client library, or its constituents.

   libclntsh is normally located in $ORACLE_HOME/lib; if libclntsh.so is not 

   present you may well be able to build it using the genclntsh shell script.

   It is also possible to link the driver with the constituent parts of 

   libclntsh, although this will require a manual link at this time.

   Please note that libclntsh.so on some versions of Oracle has an undefined

   symbol in it (slpmprodstab). Exporting this symbol from the Oracle ODBC

   library seems to remedy this (but is not a safe solution). The configure

   option "--enable-symbol-hack=yes" sets the workaround.

   Oracle version 8.1.5 does not have this problem.



 o A driver manager. unixODBC is recommended (see http://www.unixODBC.org).



 o A POSIX threads library (libpthread) is required for thread safety.



The necessary Oracle files for most platforms are available for free download 

either as part of their respective server distributions or as part of client 

distributions from the Oracle Technology Network at http://technet.oracle.com



Some of these downloads can be very large however (hundreds of megabytes). For

Linux glibc2 users, libclntsh.so is available as part of the "Oracle Libs" 

package available from www.orasoft.org. 

It also appears that the necessary header files are the same across platforms,

so even if your server is on a different OS you may still be able to use the 

headers.



Obtaining the Source

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR OBTAINING THE FERMILAB CONTINUATION/FORK/WHATEVER



cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/cd_read_only login



When prompted for a password, type 



anoncvs



To check out the source code, type 



cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/cvs/cd_read_only checkout oracle_odbc_driver



ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS FROM EASYSOFT: (Still works as of Aug 16 2002)



You can obtain the latest snapshot version of the ODBC driver code either from 

the easysoft.org web site at www.easysoft.org/projects/oracle/download.phtml, 

or if you wish to keep up with the "bleeding edge" you can obtain code directly

from the CVS repository at cvs.easysoft.org as follows.



Login to the Easysoft CVS repository. Use anoncvs as the password. 

$ cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/easysoft.org/cvsroot login



Obtain the Oracle ODBC Driver CVS tree: 

$ cvs -d :pserver:[email protected]:/easysoft.org/cvsroot co oracle



After the CVS tree has been downloaded run the following command: 

$ make -f Makefile.cvs



You can then do ./configure ; make etc. as normal.



NOTE

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Please be aware that this code is under constant development, hence the latest

code from CVS and possibly the latest snapshot release may not function

correctly and may not even compile correctly on your platform.



If you wish to keep up with the development effort there is a mailing list at 

easysoft.com. To subscribe, send a message to [email protected] with the 

words "subscribe oracle" in the body of the mail. We have also set up a 

newsgroup for more detailed discussion of the development effort, this can be

accessed on our news server as news://news.easysoft.com/easysoft.beta.oracle



Small bugfixes can be mailed (preferably as unified diffs) to 

[email protected]



MAILING LIST

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To keep up to date with the development of the Oracle ODBC driver, send a mail

containing the text "subscribe oracle" to [email protected]

There is also a newsgroup at news://news.easysoft.com/easysoft.beta.oracle 

for more detailed deiscussion of the development effort

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