DBD::O...Cygwin(3pm)

DBD::Oracle::Troubleshooting::Cygwin 💖

okay so bestie, this is the User Contributed Perl Documentation page for DBD::Oracle::Troubleshooting::Cygwin — it's literally all the tips and hints you need to troubleshoot DBD::Oracle on Cygwin 🐧✨. If you're fighting Oracle on Cygwin at 2am, this is your girl. no cap.

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VERSION 🎀

version 1.83

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General Info 🌸

so Makefile.PL should find and make use of the OCI include files, but bestie, you still have to build an import library for OCI.DLL and drop it somewhere in the library search path. one of the possible ways to do this is running this command:

dlltool --input-def oci.def --output-lib liboci.a

do that in the directory where you unpacked the DBD::Oracle distribution archive. this will create an import library for Oracle 8.0.4. iconic behavior honestly.

Note: make clean removes '*.a' files, so put a copy in a safe place. like fr fr, protect it. 🥺

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Compiling DBD::Oracle using the Oracle Instant Client, Cygwin Perl and gcc 🦋

1. download these two packages from Oracle's Instant Client for Windows site (http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/winsoft.html):
   • Instant Client Package - Basic: All files required to run OCI, OCCI, and JDBC-OCI applications
   • Instant Client Package - SDK: Additional header files and an example makefile for developing Oracle applications with Instant Client

(I usually just use the latest version of the client — the way that's the lowkey easiest move 💅)

2. unpack both into C:\oracle\instantclient_11_1
3. download and unpack DBD::Oracle from CPAN to some place with no spaces in the path (I used /tmp/DBD-Oracle) and cd to it.
4. set up some environment variables (it didn't work until I got the DSN right — tragic, I know):

ORACLE_DSN=DBI:Oracle:host=oraclehost;sid=oracledb1
ORACLE_USERID=username/password

5. then run:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Note: the TNS Names stuff doesn't always seem to work with the instant client, so Perl scripts need to explicitly use host/sid in the DSN, like this:

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:host=oraclehost;sid=oracledb1',
'username', 'password');

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AUTHORS 👑

• Tim Bunce <timb@cpan.org>
• John Scoles <byterock@cpan.org>
• Yanick Champoux <yanick@cpan.org>
• Martin J. Evans <mjevans@cpan.org>

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COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE 📜

This software is copyright (c) 2022, 2021, 2019, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 by Tim Bunce.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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and that's the whole vibe, bestie 🫶 this was perl v5.36.0, dated 2023-02-26, brought to you by the DBD::O...Cygwin(3pm) girlies. go compile something iconic ✨💅