Comments on: How to setup Ruby and Oracle Instant Client on Snow Leopard

By: JulesLt

JulesLt — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:41:32 +0000

Thanks – this entry helped sort my more general ‘getting the Pro*C compiler to work’ problem with OS X (main problem – I already had 32-bit instantclient installed prior to Snow Leopard upgrade, so linked problems – but prior to that it was trying to link to an (empty) .so under the main /oracle install.

The key was installing the instantclient SDK and getting that in the link path, and then setting the arch flags – I don’t think you can get ‘proc’ working using just the Database and Database companion CD alone (no demo make file, no libclntsh.dylib).

I wonder if that would be worth a blog entry in itself?

By: rosetta stone language

rosetta stone language — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:38:54 +0000

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By: Austin

Austin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:46:16 +0000

Ok- school boy error- when i saw the log also had:

checking for load library path…
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH…
checking /usr/local/oracle/instantclient_10_2… skip: /usr/local/oracle/instantclient_10_2/libclntsh.dylib.10.1 is for i386 cpu.

I realised I had downloaded the 32 bit version not the 64 bit.

Bit of a mistake there ;)

By: Austin

Austin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 13:45:07 +0000

Hi,

I’ve followed the instructions but when I try to run

sudo env DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ gem install ruby-oci8

I get

—————————————————
Error Message:
Set the environment variable ORACLE_HOME if Oracle Full Client.
Append the path of Oracle client libraries to DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH if Oracle Instant Client.

DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH is set to “/usr/local/oracle/instantclient_10_2″ and the instand client is at /usr/local/oracle/instantclient_10_2

Has anyone experienced this issue?

Thanks

By: send9

send9 — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:34:37 +0000

Thanks, was having problems and it was because I was missing the second symlink. Works now, thanks!

By: szczyrk

szczyrk — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:35:52 +0000

Hello, I found this post via google. Great post and materials.

By: ACC

ACC — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:17:33 +0000

@Alain, We had the same problem copying over from a PC. We ended up retyping in the tnsnames.ora file. We could have probably run it through a filter but it was a short file and easier to retype. Also, on Leopard, we needed to use an upper case TNSNAMES.ora. The good news is that you have connectivity through the stack!

By: Alain

Alain — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:22:13 +0000

Hi,

I followed the instruction above, copying everything in the same folder as the author, but I am getting this error:

oci8.c:248:in oci8lib.bundle: ORA-12545: Connect failed because target host or object does not exist (OCIError)
from -e:1:in `new’
from -e:1

As far as I know, the name I supplied in the TSNAME file are correct since it is a cut&paste from another machine (a PC) for which everything is working. I have installed both 2.0.3 and 2.0.7 ruby-oci8 gems.

Running a brand new 13″ MacBook Pro

By: Robby Riessen

Robby Riessen — Tue, 25 May 2010 11:09:21 +0000

I love the layout

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:37:24 +0000

For me to work, I had to add the ORACLE_HOME into the command line. Someway this environment variable was getting wiped out and/or ignored.

sudo env ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_HOME DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH ARCHFLAGS=”-arch x86_64″ gem install ruby-oci8