(Apologies if I'm in the wrong place; please feel free to point a Newbie
in the right direction).

We're starting to migrate a swathe of Solaris 8-hosted, embedded SQL,
'C' programs from Ingres to Oracle.

In the past we've "suffered" with having to statically link the Ingres
client libraries into each and every Executable, which I'd like to
avoid, going forward.

What compiler (cc)/linker (ld) options do we need to specify to use to
ensure that the Oracle client libraries are loaded /dynamically/?


We're currently "getting things to work" using:

[makefile]
ORACLE_ORACLE=*-L $(ORACLE_HOME)/lib32 -l clntsh*
OTHER_LIBS= . . .
PROC_C=lines=yes

....then...

$(NAME).c : $(NAME).pc
proc $(PROC_C) $(NAME).pc

$(NAME).o : $(NAME).c
$(CC) -g -c $(NAME).c -o $(NAME).o

$(NAME).exe : $(NAME).o $(OTHER_LIBS)
$(CC) -g $(ORACLE_LIBS) $(OTHER_LIBS) \
-o $(NAME).exe

but I have a nasty feeling that will statically link the run-time.

TIA,
Phill W.

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:37:19 +0100, "Phill W."
<p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d-@-o-p-e-n-.-a-c-.-u-k> wrote:

There are no such things like nasty feelings. If there are nasty
feelings they should be corroborated by evidence, gotten from the nm
command.
AFAIK Oracle libraries have always been linked dynamically.

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:37:19 +0100, "Phill W."
<p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d-@-o-p-e-n-.-a-c-.-u-k> wrote:

There are no such things like nasty feelings. If there are nasty
feelings they should be corroborated by evidence, gotten from the nm
command.
AFAIK Oracle libraries have always been linked dynamically.

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:37:19 +0100, "Phill W."
<p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d-@-o-p-e-n-.-a-c-.-u-k> wrote:

There are no such things like nasty feelings. If there are nasty
feelings they should be corroborated by evidence, gotten from the nm
command.
AFAIK Oracle libraries have always been linked dynamically.

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:37:19 +0100, "Phill W."
<p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d-@-o-p-e-n-.-a-c-.-u-k> wrote:

There are no such things like nasty feelings. If there are nasty
feelings they should be corroborated by evidence, gotten from the nm
command.
AFAIK Oracle libraries have always been linked dynamically.

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:37:19 +0100, "Phill W."
<p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d-@-o-p-e-n-.-a-c-.-u-k> wrote:

There are no such things like nasty feelings. If there are nasty
feelings they should be corroborated by evidence, gotten from the nm
command.
AFAIK Oracle libraries have always been linked dynamically.

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:37:19 +0100, "Phill W."
<p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d-@-o-p-e-n-.-a-c-.-u-k> wrote:

There are no such things like nasty feelings. If there are nasty
feelings they should be corroborated by evidence, gotten from the nm
command.
AFAIK Oracle libraries have always been linked dynamically.

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 10:37:19 +0100, "Phill W."
<p-.-a-.-w-a-r-d-@-o-p-e-n-.-a-c-.-u-k> wrote:

There are no such things like nasty feelings. If there are nasty
feelings they should be corroborated by evidence, gotten from the nm
command.
AFAIK Oracle libraries have always been linked dynamically.

--
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

sybrandb (AT) hccnet (DOT) nl wrote:

Agreed - if only I had the /faintest/ idea where to look for these
definitions; I'm *painfully* new to Oracle.

That's mighty good to know!

Many Thanks,
Phill W.

sybrandb (AT) hccnet (DOT) nl wrote:

Agreed - if only I had the /faintest/ idea where to look for these
definitions; I'm *painfully* new to Oracle.

That's mighty good to know!

Many Thanks,
Phill W.