ORA-12705 when running application what was linked statically

Question

I am trying to link our application statically, which is ProC and Oci application, compiled with oracle 9.2.0.6.
I am compiling on HP-UX 11.00.
I used the static linkage of oracle's sample1.pc, to see which libraries are taken by oracle, and I got the following:
-lclntst9 -lnbeq9 -lnhost9 -lnus9 -lnldap9 -lldapclnt9 -lnsslb9 -lnoname9 -lntcp9 -lntcps9 -l:libcl.sl -l:librt.sl -lpthread -l:libnss_dns.1 -l:libdld.sl -lm -lpthread -lpthread
After linking my application with the following libraries, I try to run it. I didn’t supply my application ORA_NLS33. NLS_CHARACTERSET of the database I am trying to connect is WE8ISO8859P1.
When I tried running it, I got:
ORA-12705: invalid or unknown NLS parameter value specified
Therefore I tried to add the nls libraries, -lnls9 -lsnls9 -lunls9, to the static compilation, but when I try to rerun my application, I still got the same error.
Only after applying my application ORA_NLS33, it worked fine.
The question is:
When I am linking statically, does my application must have a client, in order to work properly, or am I missing other libraries that I need to link with?

Answer 1

Well, given that, I think getting a sqlnet trace would be a good idea. Have you done that before by chance? It's not terribly difficult, but maybe a bit messy to do through a forum posting (not impossible mind)... If you have a support contract you can open an SR to help with that.
As an example, here's my sqlnet.ora file from an 11.2 ODAC install with all the tracing enabled (need to change path as appropriate, of course):
SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES=(NTS)
NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH=(TNSNAMES, EZCONNECT)
DIAG_ADR_ENABLED=OFF
TRACE_LEVEL_CLIENT=16
TRACE_DIRECTORY_CLIENT=C:\oracle\11.2\odac\Network\Admin\TraceWhen I deliberately place an invalid host name in my tnsnames.ora file as a simple test, the section of the resulting trace file of interest looks like this:
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:08:581] nttbnd2addr: entry
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:08:581] snlinGetAddrInfo: entry
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:08:581] snlinGetAddrInfo: getaddrinfo() failed with error 11001
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:08:581] snlinGetAddrInfo: exit
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:08:581] nttbnd2addr: looking up IP addr for host: bogus
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:08:581] snlinGetAddrInfo: entry
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:10:833] snlinGetAddrInfo: getaddrinfo() failed with error 11004
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:10:833] snlinGetAddrInfo: exit
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:10:833] nttbnd2addr:  *** hostname lookup failure! ***
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:10:834] nttbnd2addr: exit
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:10:834] nserror: entry
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:10:834] nserror: nsres: id=0, op=77, ns=12545, ns2=12560; nt[0]=515, nt[1]=1004, nt[2]=0; ora[0]=0, ora[1]=0, ora[2]=0
(5840) [11-MAY-2010 11:10:10:834] nsc2addr: error exitSo, you can clearly see the 12545 in this trace and the file will have lots of other information such as the tnsnames.ora file used, etc.
Regards,
Mark