Re: Symbol Loading Failure for DBD::Oracle on OSX 10.4.7

On Aug 15, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Jeremy Smith wrote:

> I can't get DBD::Oracle past the "make test" stage. I've read the "
> README.macosx.txt" and though there isn't anything directly
> relevant to OSX
> 10.4.x, I've tried everything suggested in that file. After a lot of
> googling and hail mary attempts to get it linked correctly, I'm
> down to
> this.
>
> I've installed the Instant Client for Oracle for Mac OS X from
> http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantcl ient/
> htdocs/macsoft.html.
> I installed it into "/Oracle" and symlinked a "libs" directory
> underneath
> there as well. Here is the output of an 'ls -lAFh':



I haven't tried Instant Client on Mac, but there are issues and
workarounds for the full
install on Tiger.

I'm going to guess that at least some of your 'hail mary' relink
attempts came from info
at http://www.orablogs.com/sergio/archives/000781.html
If not, skip below the official blog entry to the first comment,
steps 9 and 10.
If Instant Client ships with the scripts genclntst, genclntsh,
gensyslib, and relink (maybe you wouldn't need this for Instant
Client), then that might help.

Otherwise you could just download and install the full Oracle install
(following the instructions at the website above), and skip the parts
about setting up and running the database and listener. Inelegant,
but known to work.
-Chris