Compilation and use of instant client

I have two questions:
1. Can I compile a ProC and OCI program with Instant Client (10.1.0.4 or 10.2)? If so, how do I do it? what settings need to be done?
2. Oracle 10g can be installed on SunOs 5.8 and above. Can I use Oracle Instant Client (which is 10g also) on lower level machine, like SunOs 5.7 ? Is there a matrix which shows the platform that instant client can be used?

Thanks Toliver for the quick answer.
I still have some missunderstanding regarding the second question.
I saw Oracle's Client/Server interoperability matrix, but this matrix (at list the one I looked at) only stated the combination of which client version can work with which Oracle's Server version.
The senario I am interested in is this:
I compile a C program which uses ProC and OCI in SunOs 5.8, against Oracle server 10.1.0.4.
Now, the program need to use Instant Client 10.1.0.4, and connect to 8i, 9i, and 10g databases.
The tricky part is that the program actually runs on SunOs 5.7 (where SunOs 5.7 is not stateted as a platform for 10g), but the 5.7 machine is not where the database is. The program connects other machines which has 8i,9i and 10g databases.
Will It work?

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I'm replying to an old thread, but did any of you ever got this resolved?
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I've downloaded Instant Client Basic and ODBC add-on, unzipped them into D:\oracle\instantclient10_2\ , added the path into PATH, TNS_ADMIN and ORACLE_HOME environment variables and run the odbc_install.exe successfully.
Trying to create an ODBC connection (System DSN) results in "The setup routines for the Oracle in instantclient10_2 ODBC driver could not be loaded due to system error code 126".
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Where can I get an older version of Instant Client instead?

I'm trying to distribute a DB Application using the Instant Client provided

Hi!!
I'm trying to distribute a DB Application using the Instant Client provided by Oracle.
I've checked the FAQ of Oracle and says the Instant Client supports all existant versions of Oracle.
But I've also seen in another posting that the oci.dll needs the same Oracle version file it was created with.
I need to distribute an application that provides all the 8i, 9i and 10g versions.
Do I have to distribute the oci.dll for each version?
I just wanted to check if this was true.
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thanx
Edited by: user11139984 on 2009. 5. 6 오후 11:10

I am not sure what you mean if you say that you "need to distribute an application that provides all the 8i, 9i and 10g versions".
If you mean that you want your application to be able to access Oracle Databases of versions 8, 9 and 10, then you can use Instant Client 10.2.0.4 which is able to connect to all of them.
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That would be the user name and password for the database you are trying to connect to. The DBA may be in charge of creating accounts and handing out passwords-- if not, he should know who is.
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