Compiling and Linking a Program v13

The EDB Open Client Library allows applications written using the Oracle Call Interface API to connect to and access an EDB database with minimal changes to the C source code. The EDB Open Client Library files are named:

On Linux:

libedboci.so

On Windows:

edboci.dll

The files are installed in the oci/lib subdirectory.

Compiling and Linking a Sample Program

The following example compiles and links the sample program edb_demo.c in a Linux environment. The edb_demo.c is located in the oci/samples subdirectory.

  1. Set the ORACLE_HOME and EDB_HOME environment variables.

  2. Set ORACLE_HOME to the complete pathname of the Oracle home directory.

For example:

export ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server

  1. Set EDB_HOME to the complete pathname of the home directory.

For example:

export EDB_HOME=/usr/edb

  1. Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the complete path of libpthread.so. By default, libpthread.so is located in /lib64.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib64/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

  1. Set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to include the Advanced Server Open Client library. By default, libiconv.so.2 is located in $EDB_HOME/oci/lib.

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$EDB_HOME/oci:$EDB_HOME/oci/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

  1. Then, compile and link the OCL API program.

cd $EDB_HOME/oci/samples

make