OCI.DLL Solution

[Daragh Fitzpatrick]

After installing Oracle 9i R2 (9.2.0.1.0) and installing PL/SQL Developer, I could get SQL*Plus to work, but not PL/SQL Developer. It kept complaining that it could not find "the OCI DLL"

I noted that Oracles install (in ORAHOME/bin) had ociw32.dll, and NOT oci.dll. After much hacking and re-installing, I finally decided to copy ociw32.dll to oci.dll, and lo-and-behold: it worked!

I know it might be Oracle's problem, but I wanted to record this for others, and suggest that AllAround might add this DLL to the list of acceptable DLLs to use..

Cheers,

Daragh

 

[Marco Kalter]

Note that there should be an OCI.DLL file, so it would seem that your installation is incomplete. OCIW32.DLL only exists for backward compatitibility.