Thanks!

I got it all to work, all on 64bit, and sqlplus even works. Here's my process:

First, I followed mostly what was at this stackoverflow accepted solution.

To that end, I did the following:

I created the directory /Applications/instantclient_11_2.

I downloaded from Oracle the following packages (not sure they are all necessary, but they were sufficient):

instantclient-basic-macos.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip
instantclient-sdk-macos.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip
instantclient-sqlplus-macos.x64-11.2.0.3.0.zip
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This was all in my ~/Downloads directory, and they all unzipped into a local 'instantclient_11_2' directory, and I copied all of the results of unzipping that to /Applications/instantclient_11_2.

Then I did the DBD::Oracle install (see following code), which fails to completely install, but at least gets the files down, which I deal with manually after this step.

sudo perl -MCPAN -e shell
install DBD::Oracle
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That code downloaded to my ~/.cpan/build directory, but per the stack overflow post, you can follow the directions there if that is not where you cpan build directory is.

Once there I had to cd into the ~/.cpan/build/DBD-Oracle-1.66-(something) directory, then sudo su root. Now, on MacOSX, root is not enabled by default, follow the directions here to get a root account enabled on your machine.

Now I was ready to build. I had to set two environment variables (while I'm root), like so:

export ORACLE_HOME=/Applications/instantclient_11_2
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH:/Applications/instantclien
+t_11_2
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to make this work. The second one is paramount because that's why you have to su to root and not just sudo it -- if you try to sudo this, the shell tells you that it doesn't pick up the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH info. I don't know why, but there you go.

Now I was ready to do the

perl Makefile.pl
make
make install
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commands (while in the module build directory as root).

This installed, and I got a ton of warnings, but it worked.

Good luck to you, hope you find these instructions if you hit the same problem I did...

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