compatibility Oracle8i about ocilib HOT 6 CLOSED

oh, i forgot to say: i also try to link against lclient8 ...

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Hi,
Thanks for reporting issues.
For the past releases, I may have by inadvertence, broke Oracle 8i compatibility.
Even if Oracle 8i is about 20 years old and no more supported by Oracle for years, I will fix these issues asap.

Regards,

Vincent

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Regarding direct path, as mentioned in the ocilib documentation section "Installing OCILIB":

Some older version of Oracle 8 have direct path API symbols located in the library libclient8. With these versions, you must include as well the linker flag -lclient8 to use Direct Path API.

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Can you check latest code to see if it is okay for you?

thanks

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wow, thanks a lot for your fast response.

yes, it look like it now works for me (and Oracle8i).
first i have same problems with "undefined reference" to direct path functions ... as i said yesterday, i already try it with -lclient8.
but it's just a question of link-order. put -lclient8 in the right order, than it works.

thanks a lot.

yesterday morning we had a discussion if ocilib will be useable for us, one point was if it's under 'active development' ... your very fast and helpfull answer will say: "definitely yes" :)

So thanks a lot, and now we will have a closer look to ocilib :)

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Hi,

You're welcome :)

Yes, you're right, OCILIB is under active development and support :)
But as the library is mature, there is no more new cool stuff to on a regular basis.
Most of active recent activity was focused on the C++ API that was added early this year.
I'm waiting for Oracle 12C R2 to add cool new feature support :)
In the meanwhile, it is more about support

Best regards,

Vincent

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