No Instant Client 10.2 for Mac PPC?

Question

I'll skip the rant about there not being an Oracle Instant Client for Intel Mac since that appears to have been covered in a previous thread.
But where's the 10.2 instant client for PPC Macs? All other platforms (at least the ones I care about) have 10.2 but Mac is stuck at 10.1. When I link against the 10.1 library, I get the following unresolved externals:
__ZTIN6oracle4occi12SQLExceptionE
__ZTIN6oracle4occi7PObjectE
Please tell me there's a 10.2 available for Mac, even if it's only PPC. Maybe somebody just forgot to update the links on the download site?

Answer 1

hi there. i've got (almost) the same problem on my mac ppc (darwin kernel version 8.10.0) with g++ 4.0.0, but i only have an unresolved __ZTIN6oracle4occi12SQLExceptionE.
there is a workaround for the SQLException problem. as SQLException extends std::exception you can use
try {
catch(std::exception& exception) {
int oraCode(exception.getErrorCode());
std::string oraMessage(exception.getMessage());
// do whatever you like with oraCode and oraMessage
instead of
try {
catch(oracle::occi::SQLException& exception) {
int oraCode(exception.getErrorCode());
std::string oraMessage(exception.getMessage());
// do whatever you like with oraCode and oraMessage
throughout your code, which will not require
__ZTIN6oracle4occi12SQLExceptionE to be resolved (or generated).
as i mentioned before, i haven't come across the PObject problem. what compiler are you using (i suppose g++ 4.0.0)? what are your compiler and linker flags?
best wishes from hamburg, matt