I'm trying to get DBD::Oracle to work on windows via cygwin.

Problem number one, it doesn't know where ORACLE_HOME is, when I run perl Makefile.PL

I have solved this by manually setting an ORACLE_HOME into the $ENV, now the perl Makefile.PL command works.

Now I try to run make and this fails with the following:

Oracle.h:37:17: fatal error: oci.h: No such file or directory
 #include <oci.h>
                 ^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [Makefile:378: Oracle.o] Error 1

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I thought the way to solve this was to run the Makefile with this argument:

 perl Makefile.PL INC='-I/cygdrive/c/app/myname/product/12.1.0/client_2/oci/include/'

Which is exactly where the oci.h file can be found.

So, what am I doing wrong?

The second and even greater mystery is that when I installed the Oracle client, it installed its own Perl executable. Should I be using this to run/install DBD?

Spoiler, I tried that and it didn't work.

In reply to Mysteries of Oracle, Windows, and cygwin by Cody Fendant

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