Python on a Macintosh running Mac OS X is in principle very similar to Python on any other Unix platform, but there are a number of additional features such as the. After this you can either copy Perl from your operating system media (you will need at least the /System/Library/Perl and /usr/bin/perl), or rebuild Perl from the source code with Configure -Dprefix=/usr -Duseshrplib NOTE: the -Dprefix=/usr to replace the system Perl works much better with Perl 5.8.1 and later, in Perl 5.8.0 the settings were.

Mac Perl Library Path Free

Add Perl To Path

This is a great article, and it helped me immensely. FINALLY, I can store and develop my Oracle-backended perl applications on my laptop instead of remotely on a Unix system.

A note that might help many: the 10.1 version of instanctclient was built incorrectly, and has a hardcoded link to a library on some developer's workstation somewhere out in Oracle land. (Don't ask me how their QA missed this.)

Perl Library Files

If, when loading DBD::Oracle, you get some noise like 'dyld: Library not loaded: /b/729/rdbms/lib/libclntsh.dylib.10.1', it just means that the Oracle bundle wants it's buddy /b/729/rdbms/lib/libclntsh.dylib.10.1 and can't find it. A simple (but not particularly elegant) workaround is to just give it what it wants by putting a symlink to that library in that location.

The following commands should do it (execute in the terminal). You must replace INSTALLDIR with the path to wherever you installed the instantclient; if you're really not sure, simply navigate to the instant client directory in the finder and just drop libclntsh.dylib.10.1 into the terminal window when you get to that part of the command (in which case you don't need to type the filename part either).

Mac Perl Library Path Location

sudo mkdir -p /b/729/rdbms/lib/
sudo ln -s INSTALLDIR/libclntsh.dylib.10.1 /b/729/rdbms/lib/