Is it possible to set environment variables for Oracle inside perl for use with Class::DBI::Oracle? I'm getting an error from DynaLoader saying it cant find a library. My code works fine if I set LD_LIBRARY_PATH in my shell and then call the perl program, but I want to know if I can do it inside the perl. I've tried stuff along the lines of:

BEGIN
{
  $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} .= ":/users/oracle/product/9.2.0/lib";
  $ENV{ORACLE_HOME}    ||= "/users/oracle/product/9.2.0";
}

package MyDatabase::DBI;
use strict;

use base 'Class::DBI::Oracle';

# connect to the database.
MyDatabase::DBI->connection('dbi:Oracle:fred', 'wilma', 'barney');

# more code to follow etc...

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But this does not seem to work. Any ideas?

Thanks, mildside.

In reply to Class::DBI::Oracle environment variable issue by mildside

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