Re: Problems with PHP 4.0.3pl1 and Oracle 8.1.6 on Solaris 2.7

Peter Johansson wrote: > > Hi, > > I wonder if anyone could tell me what option to choose when installing > Oracle 8i (8.1.6) in order to be able to compile PHP with support for > Oracle? > > I'm asking since I installed Oracle today on a workstation running Solaris > 2.7. My machine is only used as webserver, so I'm not very interested in a > full Oracle-installation, but only what's necessary to get a Oracle-capable > PHP up and running. > > I thought Oracle's "Client" install-mode would be sufficient, but apparently > it's not. I chose "Client" and then "Administrator" (which installed > some > 300 MB's) and the configure runs nicely but when I run make I get this > message saying that oci.h can't be found: > > In file included from internal_functions.c:40: > /extra/app/src/php-4.0.3pl1/ext/oci8/php_oci8.h:45: oci.h: No such file or > directory > > When I check /opt/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/rdbms/demo/ I discover that it > only contains one file, oratypes.h, so I guess it's not that strange that > the compile fails. > > So, what's the _minimal_ install of Oracle 8i in order to compile PHP > successfully? > > Regards, > Peter > they (oracle) have a really brain-damaged installation. At least this oci.h file you get only when you install the server itself, so the "minimal" install is actually a full-blown one of all 3 parts (server, client and programming environment). -- Pasha Zusmanovich <pasha@zend.com> Zend Technologies <http://www.zend.com/>