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

[Mark H. <mh...@pi...>]

D.R. Boxhoorn wrote:
> 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]
> 

We did a similar patch and it worked well.  In order to match our software distribution
environment, we repackacked the instantclient installation into the traditional
./{bin,lib/include} hierarchy.  Here's our patch:


50c50
<     includeDirs = ["rdbms/demo", "rdbms/public", "network/public", "sdk/include"]
---
 >     includeDirs = ["include"]
55c55
<     libPath = os.path.join(oracleHome, ".")
---
 >     libPath = os.path.join(oracleHome, "lib")

HTH,
Mark

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