Licence Cost for Oracle Instant Clent for PHP

Hi all
we have downloaded Oracle instant client for connecting our PHP application with oracle.
We have Oracle licence already.
Do we need to have separate licence for Instant client or it is free?

Yes, thanks for pointing that out. When you download a thousand times such details might just become lost behind a click, scroll, scroll and click procedure.
However, what I was trying to get at was that most product downloads if not all requires a "real" license, unless you want to only play a bit with it on your laptop. But in this case the license is somewhat more generous. Of course, you or your customers would still need to license the database servers.

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Max wrote:
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Hi all, this is my first post here (so I don't know if it's the proper place, but to try it is free. Sorry for any inconvenience).
Anybody, can confirm/explain why, one year after launch, there isn't one available download of Oracle Instant Client for Intel MacOS X?
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just to know a bit more... two months later... how is customer demand going...?
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Hi,
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Solved it by compiling apache 2.2.20 into 64bits using:
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and using the 10.2.0.4 instant client.
there might be a bug in the 11.x ones, they dont seem to work on Oracle Solaris 11.

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Hello
I have Oracle 10.1.0 enterprise database installed on a Windows 2003 server.
I have another machine that has Fedora Core 5 installed on it. I downloaded:
Apache 2.2.3
Php 5.1.6
OracleInstantClient 10.1.0.5 (base and skdk packages) from technet.oracle.com
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the debug.log. From this debug log you can see the configure options I gave for
php as well as the error. It says "cannot find -lirc". Now I did put into
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CONFIGURE: './configure' '--with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs' '--enable-track-vars'
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CPPFLAGS:
CXX:
CXXFLAGS:
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LDFLAGS: -L/usr/lib -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/instantclient10_1 -L/usr/lib/instantclient10_1
LIBS: -lpng -lz -lz -lresolv -lm -ldl -lnsl -lxml2 -lz -lm -lxml2 -lz -lm -ldl -lm -lnsl
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SAPI: apache2handler
PHP_RPATHS: /usr/lib/instantclient10_1
uname -a: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp #1 SMP Tue Mar 14 16:05:46 EST 2006
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
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conftest.c: In function 'main':
conftest.c:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit'
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lirc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Thanks

To be perfectly honest, I'm not sure. Everything I could find on it had to do with IRC or some kind of remote control thing (for controlling audio/media players). Maybe if Ivan stops by he'll know what it means... he knows quite a lot about the inner workings of many of these libraries.
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