Basic Client Installation

[Steve S]

Sorry for asking such a basic question but we are new to ORACLE and DOA and are about to go live with our InterBase to ORACLE database transfer.

We have some Delphi 6 Client applications running DOA 40d6 components that work fine on the devlopment PC which has Oracle 10g client and the DOA components installed in Delphi.

When we transfer the applications to a server we get an error stating:

Could not locate OCI dll then the OracleHomeKey and OracleHomeDir locations. I can see the OCI.dll file in the directory.

My question is what is the bare minimum requirement for the client PC that will run a Delphi DOA application and connect to an ORACLE 10g server.

Any advice very welcome....

Thank you!

Steve

 

[Marco Kalter]

The only requirement is a properly installed Oracle Client. The oci.dll file should be located in the bin subdirectory of the Oracle Home directory, as registered in the Oracle registry (hkey_local_machine\software\oracle).

For a 10g Instant Client the only requirement is that the client directory is included in the PATH.