Re: [cx-oracle-users] Installing cx_Oracle on AIX without using "xlc_r"

[Kristian B. <kr...@ti...>]

 

On 27.11.2013 12:13, Ivanelson Nunes wrote: 

> My only way out is to buy the xlc? If someone to build and compiled in the format aix_ppc cx_Oracle?

No, you can compile cx_Oracle with gcc, but you have to use a Python
binary compiled with gcc to achieve that. When Python is built on aix,
it also creates a wrapper for compiling C modules that can be called
from Python. This is the ld_so_aix program. If you compile python with
xlc, the wrapper will be created with xlc as the compiler and linker. If
you compile python with gcc, it will create a wrapper using gcc. You
can't use a xlc-compiled python to create gcc-compiled modules. So you
either have to rebuild python with gcc and then compile cx_oracle or you
have to get xlc to compile cx_oracle. Now, you can get a free trial of
xlc for aix on ibm's website. Maybe that's sufficient to create a rpm
you can reuse, but make sure to check the licensing terms of the trial
before doing so.

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[Kristian Berg]