Hi,

I am developing an application which uses OCI to connect to Oracle 9i/
10g databases.

On Windows, I am using "oci.dll" provided by Oracle 10g and built my
application.
Application works fine(able to connect and fetch data) on Oracle 9i /
10g databases.

On Linux, "libclntsh.so" is the symbolic link which points to
"libclntsh.so.9.0" on Oracle 9i
and "libclntsh.so.10.1" on Oracle 10g. These libraries are OCI
libraries.

So when I build my application using "-lclntsh" option on Oracle 9i, I
am not able to work deploying the application on 10g because my
application is depending on "libclntsh.so.9.0" on which I compiled the
application.

As of now, I have built my application for Oracle 9i and 10g
separately.

Is there a way where only one application works on 9i and 10g ??


Manoj

kvmanoj (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

An OCI app linked against 10g libs should work with 9i without any problems.

Mathias

Hi,

I built my application using libclntsh.so.10.1 and its working fine on
Oracle 10g.

But when I run it on Oracle 9i, it says "error loading shared library
libclntsh.so.10.1" because Oracle 9i doesnot have that library.

Thanks,
Manoj


Mathias Waack wrote:

kvmanoj (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:
ok, there's a misunderstanding: you can run an app built in a 10g
environment against a 9i database. But of course you'll not be able to run
an app built in a 10g environment in a 9i environment. So you have to
either stick with two builds or you ship your app with its own environment.

Mathias