Re: [cx-oracle-users] Minimum client requirements for cx_Oracle

[D.R. B. <da...@as...>]

Hoi Nik,

You - and your customers - can use the Oracle Instant Client.
See

   http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/instantclient.html

the "basic" and "sdk" parts of the OIC are sufficient for installing cx_Oracle.
You just have to change the setup.py a bit

   50c50
   <     includeDirs = ["rdbms/demo", "rdbms/public", "network/public", "sdk/include"]
   ---
   >     includeDirs = ["rdbms/demo", "rdbms/public", "network/public"]
   58c58
   <     libDirs = [oracleHome, libPath]
   ---
   >     libDirs = [libPath]


This just appends "sdk/include" to the include searchpath and prepends the value
of the ORACLE_HOME environment variable to the library searchpath.
Hmmm, Anthony, maybe something like this should go into the distributed
cx_Oracle setup.py as well.

This is as "lightweight" as you can get, apart from creating your own
cx_Oracle+Oracle libraries distribution.

Hoping that this helps,

                                                   Danny



On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:42:02AM +0100, Nik Barron wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does cx_Oracle require a full Oracle client installation, or is there a more
> "lightweight" option?
> 
> Currently this hasn't been an issue as our product requires the full client
> anyway, but the question's been raised by one of our support people as some
> customers' IT departments don't like rolling out the Oracle client to all
> users.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nick Barron
> 
> 
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