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Re: Mysteries of Oracle, Windows, and cygwin

by afoken (Chancellor)
on Sep 05, 2018 at 17:11 UTC ( [id://1221785]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Mysteries of Oracle, Windows, and cygwin

The second and even greater mystery is that when I installed the Oracle client, it installed its own Perl executable. Should I be using this to run/install DBD?

No. It is usually old and not needed except to recreate parts of the Oracle software that are already installed on your computer. Try to get rid of it.

Oracle Installer is a pain, perhaps get rid of the entire Oracle installation and install "Instant Client" instead. As a rule of thumb, install only the ODBC driver (that depends on all required libraries and so also installs them) and everything that looks like "development", "libraries", "headers".

Alexander

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Re^2: Mysteries of Oracle, Windows, and cygwin
by marto (Cardinal) on Sep 05, 2018 at 17:49 UTC

    In my experience Oracle do use the perl they ship, getting rid of it is a bad idea IMHO.

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