MKS Toolkit for Oracle Financials

Question

Hello,
While installing Oracle Financials 11, I received an error that says the following
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System Utilities Check : command : cmd.exe /c C:\Stage11i\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz\bin\checkutil.cmd C:\mksnt C:\VC98
C:\Stage11i\startCD\Disk1\rapidwiz>echo off
'which' command is not available. Check MKS installation.
ERRORCODE = 1 ERRORCODE_END
Error - System Utilities Availability test has returned an error: 1
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Some other posts in this newsgroup say that by installing MKS Toolkit this problem will go away. But MKS Toolkit is available for $500 or so for single user license.
Question 1. I don't want to do any development on this install. Can I ignore this warning? Will I be able to use the app?
Question 2. Is there any alternative to MKS Toolkit? Some folks said to use cygwin, but FAQ says that it was not supported.
Thank you.
R

Answer 1

Rahul,
It is possible to install the initial Oracle applications code and database for 11i.10 without the MKS Toolkit.
However, once you have the base install completed, you will probably want to install the Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) patch, or install other patches.
Without the MKS Toolkit (and Visual C++, and GNUMAKE) you will not be able to install any patches requiring a relink of application executables.
It would be theoretically possible to replace these tools with something like CYGWIN, but it will be A LOT of effort.