Oracle Technology Network
The Instant Client libraries are also available on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Web site at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/oci/instantclient/Opens a new window
If these four libraries are accessible through the directory on the Operating System Library Path variable (LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux and UNIX, and PATH on Windows), then OCCI operates in the Instant Client mode. In this mode, there is no dependency on ORACLE_HOME and none of the other code and data files provided in ORACLE_HOME are needed by OCCI.
If you are installing Instant Client from the Oracle Technology Network,
Download and install the Instant Client libraries to an empty directory, such as instantclient_12_1.
Set the operating system shared library path environment variable (LD_LIBRARY_PATH on Linux and UNIX and PATH on Windows) to the directory used in step 1, instantclient_12_1.
Instant Client SDK
Instant Client can also be downloaded as an SDK package. The SDK contains all necessary header files and a makefile for developing OCCI applications in an Instant Client environment. Once developed, these applications can be deployed in any client environment. The SDK has these additional features:
It contains C++ demonstration programs.
It includes libraries required to link applications on Windows, and a Make.bat file is provided to build demos.
The Makefile demo.mk is provided to build the demos for Linux and UNIX. The instantclient_12_1 directory must be on the LD_LIBRARY_PATH before linking the application. These programs require symbolic links for the Client Code Library and the OCCI library, libclntsh.so.12.1 and libocci.so.12.1 respectively, in the instantclient_12_1 directory. The demo Makefile, demo.mk, generates these before the link step. These symbolic links can also be created in a shell script:
cd instantclient_12_1
ln -s libclntsh.so.11.1 libclntsh.so
ln -s libocci.so.11.1 libocci.so
The SDK also contains the Object Type Translator (OTT) utility and its classes to generate the application header files.
Complete Client Installation
If you performed a complete client installation by choosing the Admin option,
On Linux or UNIX platforms, the libociei.so library can be copied from the $ORACLE_HOME/instantclient directory. All the other libraries can be copied from the $ORACLE_HOME/lib directory in a full Oracle installation.
On Windows, the oraociei11.dll library can be copied from the ORACLE_HOME\instantclient directory. All other Windows libraries can be copied from the ORACLE_HOME\bin directory.