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Author: byterock Date: Thu Apr 10 11:41:19 2008 New Revision: 11066 Modified: dbd-oracle/trunk/Changes dbd-oracle/trunk/README.win32.txt dbd-oracle/trunk/Todo Log: Added notes on instant client 11.1.0.6.0 to README.win32.txt and update the changes and todo Modified: dbd-oracle/trunk/Changes ============================================================================== --- dbd-oracle/trunk/Changes (original) +++ dbd-oracle/trunk/Changes Thu Apr 10 11:41:19 2008 @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ =head1 Changes in DBD-Oracle 1.21(svn rev xxxx) + Added Notes to README.win32.txt on installing Instant Client 11.1.0.6.0 from John Scoles Added the oci_typecode_name method to get the name rather than just the number of an OCI_TYPECODE from John Scoles Fixed a unreported bug with Embedded Objects from John Scoles Fixes for #34621 & 33791 from RT cpan Modified: dbd-oracle/trunk/README.win32.txt ============================================================================== --- dbd-oracle/trunk/README.win32.txt (original) +++ dbd-oracle/trunk/README.win32.txt Thu Apr 10 11:41:19 2008 @@ -1,8 +1,18 @@ In general, on Windows, it's best to just use ActiveState Perl and the -PPM package manager to install a pre-built version of DBD::Oracle. +PPM package manager to install a pre-built version of DBD::Oracle however only version 1.17 is available there. If you built Perl with gcc, read README.wingcc.txt as well as this file. + +Oracle Instant Client 11.1.0.6.0 Notes + +So far I have managed to get it to Makefile and compile test and install and work. However it seems one needs to set "NLS_LANG" to a valid value +in the environment variables. + +As well IC 11 seems to have trouble finding the .ORA files. A quick fix for this is to add "TNS_ADMIN" +to the environment variables and point it to where your .ORA files are. + + --- other information, some of which is out of date --- DBD-Oracle for Windows and Oracle Instantclient and 10XE (Express Edition) Modified: dbd-oracle/trunk/Todo ============================================================================== --- dbd-oracle/trunk/Todo (original) +++ dbd-oracle/trunk/Todo Thu Apr 10 11:41:19 2008 @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Add in the DBD only debugging flag -Add new method oci_exe__mode to get the Name of the Execution Modes +Add new method oci_exe_mode to get the Name of the Execution Modes Add support for OCIClientVersion(),OCIPing(),OCIServerVersion()