Oci8 mac os x intel

Rails
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Is rails + oci8 + mac os x intel a winning combination? It appears
that oci8 might be a issue.

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Bryan L. wrote:

Is rails + oci8 + mac os x intel a winning combination? It appears
that oci8 might be a issue.

OCI8 is not really the issue. The issue is that you need an Intel
compatible library from Oracle (for example, an Intel version of the
InstantClient).

Strangely, the Oracle Mac Instant Client DOES work, on it’s own, through
the magic of Rosetta. For instance, you can run SQLPLUS. But you
can’t, for example, use it with OCI, because OCI compiles as a native
Intel binary, and cannot link against the PPC binaries of the Oracle
Instant Client.

If you REALLY wanted to cripple yourself, you could try to install/build
PPC binaries of your entire Ruby/Rails stack, and then run in
compatibility (read sloooooow) mode via Rosetta. I wouldn’t recommend
it, but you could try.

Or production server is RedHat with Oracle, so we do need Oracle. But
we made the decision to run with MySQL on our Intel iMacs, and then we
have a Continuous Build server that lives on Fedora Core with Oracle XE
installed. It catches all the MySQL/Oracle “oops”, which aren’t really
that bad, after the first week or so :wink:

–
Regards, Lori O.
http://blog.dragonsharp.com

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Hi,

Lori O. [email protected] writes:

can’t, for example, use it with OCI, because OCI compiles as a native
Intel binary, and cannot link against the PPC binaries of the Oracle
Instant Client.

If you REALLY wanted to cripple yourself, you could try to install/build
PPC binaries of your entire Ruby/Rails stack, and then run in
compatibility (read sloooooow) mode via Rosetta. I wouldn’t recommend
it, but you could try.

Some people have tried.

Here is what I add to the README file in the next ruby-oci8 release.

=== Intel Mac

Oracle intant client is still, when I write this, pcc.

  1. check whether the ruby is ppc bianry.

    file which ruby

    If it is universal bianry, use ditto to extract ppc binary.

    http://blog.sven-tissot.de/daylist_html?year=2006&month=4&day=12

    If it is i386 binary, compie it as ppc.

  2. fix compilation flags.

    ruby -r rbconfig -e “p Config::CONFIG[‘CFLAGS’]”
    ruby -r rbconfig -e “p Config::CONFIG[‘DLDLAGS’]”

    If they have ‘-arch i386’, delete it from:
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/powerpc-darwin8.0/rbconfig.rb
    or
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/universal-darwin8.0/rbconfig.rb

    If they haven’t ‘-arch ppc’, add it.

  3. config, make and install

    ruby setup.rb config –
    –with-instant-client=/opt/oracle/instantclient10_1
    make
    make install

  4. rollback the changes in 2.

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I like this approach, and I got that driver to work on my mactel with
ruby, but there
are no ODBC Rails adapters. Did you write your own? or did you find one
somewhere?

For me running Rails/Ruby in PPC mode is not an option.

Does anyone know the ETA for Oracle releasing intel versions of their
drivers?

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On Apr 20, 2006, at 8:33 PM, KUBO Takehiro wrote:

InstantClient).
PPC binaries of your entire Ruby/Rails stack, and then run in
Oracle intant client is still, when I write this, pcc.

If they haven’t ‘-arch ppc’, add it.

  1. config, make and install

    ruby setup.rb config – --with-instant-client=/opt/oracle/
    instantclient10_1
    make
    make install

  2. rollback the changes in 2.

That is a great HOWTO. I came up with another solution. I purchased
an Oracle ODBC driver from http://www.actualtechnologies.com/
product_oracle.php. I then configured rails to use odbc. I don’t
want to run ppc binaries if I don’t have to.