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From: Erik Arneson <erik@aarg.net>
To: Alex Baretta <alex@baretta.com>
Cc: Ocaml <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Ocamlodbc
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:48:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m37k2qohxs.fsf@monkey.x6.aarg.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F9D1E71.7050102@baretta.com> (Alex Baretta's message of "Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:32:33 +0100")

On 27-Oct-2003, Alex Baretta <alex@baretta.com> wrote:
> I'm working on interfacing a piece of Ocaml code with an Oracle
> dbms. I noticed that Ocamlodbc does support Oracle, and I've been able
> to build both the unixodbc and the ocamlodbc/oraclecfo libraries. I'd
> like to know what C client libraries/ODBC drivers i need for Oracle to
> work with ocamlodbc.

You will need the Oracle client installation and an ODBC driver.  As
far as I know there are no stable freely-available Oracle ODBC drivers
for UnixODBC, but there are a few commercial drivers that look pretty
nice.

> Also, does anyone know if there is a "native" client library for
> Oracle à la libpq de PostgreSQL?

Search the Caml Humps for the OCaml OCI library.  There is one out
there.  I have used it with success.  Here's the URL:

                   <http://oci8ml.sourceforge.net/>

Good luck!

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-27 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-27 13:32 Alex Baretta
2003-10-27 14:48 ` Erik Arneson [this message]
2003-10-30 14:11   ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2003-10-30 17:32     ` Alex Baretta
2003-10-27 15:34 ` Richard Jones
2003-10-27 16:43 ` Sebastien Ferre
2003-10-28  8:43   ` [Caml-list] Oracle access [was: Ocamlodbc] Alex Baretta

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