Re: [MacPerl] Oracle access

[Geoffrey C Kinnel <kinnelg@bms.com>]

Peter Prymmer wrote:
> 
> Richard Christensen wrote:
> 
> > Believe it or not I did try the archive first.
> >
> > I need to do a query to an oracle database on a VAX system from my Mac.

[much snippage]

> 
> according to the page at:
> 
>  http://www.perl.org/cpan-testers/results.cgi?request=dist&dist=DBD-Oracle
> 
> The DBD::Oracle module is "Not Applicable" to MacOS PPC (???)
> 
> So that "elegant" solution is probably not yet ready for the Mac.

I looked down this road a couple of weeks ago. The reason it is "Not
Applicable" has to do with how SQL*Net is implemented on the Mac, and
how DBD:Oracle does it's installation.  DBD::Oracle has to do some
things at install time that don't really work on the Mac. I didn't get
too far after wading through the makefile.

There is a DBD::ODBC module that I might take a look at and might be
useful to the original poster, if he wants to go down that road.

Geoff

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