[cx-oracle-users] More cx_Oracle under cygwin python woes

[Laurelin of M. E. <la...@fn...>]

Good day,

After much wailing and gnashing of teeth (aka, reading the fine
documentation and trying lots of peoples' suggestions) -- I still
cannot get cx_Oracle to work in my cygwin python environment.  It works
in the Windows python environment -- and the windows installer did
everything "just fine".  But that doesn't really help me.

I've tried building from scratch using "python setup.py build
--compiler=mingw32", but get a multiscreenful of error messages that
indicate I do not have the appropriate OCI "stuff" (whatever that
means).  The ORACLE_HOME I have contains OracleDesigner, and sqlplus,
and other stuff -- but evidently not the part needed for OCI.
(Instructions for this from
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13148558, almost
a year old; I'm not sure if this person ever resolved his/her problem
either).

I found webpages suggesting that one can use the instantclient (basic
plus sdk), so I installed these and tried to follow the "edit and
roll-your-own" instructions.  Evidently the directions were posted
before the latest release of instantclient and/or cx_Oracle, because
the suggested "edit the setup.py file" instructions no longer match
anything that I see when looking at the setup.py file, nor when
looking at the instantclient file hierarchy.  (Instructions for this
from http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13558142,
almost a year old).

I've tried copying the cx_Oracle.pyd file from the version that was
Windows-installed into my cygwin $PYTHONPATH, but it seems to be
entirely ignored ("ImportError: no module named cx_Oracle")
(Instructions for this at
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13766188, but it
doesn't seem to work).


Does anybody have "recent information" about how to get whatever-it-is-
that-is-needed-in-the-simplest-way so that I have the OCI "stuff" needed
by cx_Oracle so that I can build it myself?

Thanks in advance, lauri
-- lauri loebel carpenter
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