From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2002-10-03T11:58:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Compiling Oracle extension under Windows


From: "KUBO Takehiro" <kubo@jiubao.org>


> > Three weeks ago, I posted a message (which was a bit cryptic I'll admit)
about
> > compiling the Oracle extension under Cygwin and got no response.
>
> I know the solution.
> When you make libOCI.a, don't run:
>    dlltool -d OCI.def -D $ORACLE_HOME/BIN/OCI.DLL -l libOCI.a
> but run:
>    dlltool -d OCI.def -D OCI.DLL -l libOCI.a
>
> The comment in extconf.rb makes a mistake.
>
> --
> KUBO Takehiro

Thanks for that; I'll try it under Cygwin again.

Gavin