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Instant Client Release Notes

12c Release 2 (12.2) for Apple Mac OS X (Intel)

E87948-01

June 2017

1.1

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1.2 Certification Information

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1.3 Unsupported Products

The following features or products are not supported on Apple Mac OS X:

• Pro*FORTRAN

• Pro*COBOL

1.4 Other Known Issues

The following section contains information about the issue related to Oracle Database Instant Client 12c:

Pro*C Does Not Support C99 Headers

The Pro*C parser fails to recognize C99 headers on Apple Mac OS X El Captain, Apple Mac OS X Yosemite, and Apple Mac OS X Mavericks.

This issue has no workaround.

This issue is tracked with Oracle bug 16061064.

1.5 Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

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Oracle Database Instant Client Release Notes, 12c Release 2 (12.2) for Apple Mac OS X (Intel)

E87948-01

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Build and Install cx_Oracle on Mac Leopard Intel

I finally succeeded in building and installing cx_Oracle on aMac. I will outline the steps that I took. There are manyredundant steps that I may later take out. But there are checksthat I made on the way that really helped.

The first Mac that I installed cx_Oracle was a 2.4 GHz Intel Core2 Duo running Mac OSX 10.6.6. It had 4 GB of Memory. Most of mywork was done on a terminal window.

Check Python Installation

The OSX comes with a Python interpreter. I ran a check to findthe version number.This was sufficient for my needs. I decided not to upgrade toPython version 2.7.1

Xcode from Apple

The Xcode package is available from Apple Developer.You will need a login account but that is free. Now you do not needXcode 4. Xcode 3 is sufficient because all we are interested in isthe gcc compiler. After you login look for a link that saysLooking for Xcode 3? I downloaded X code 3.2.6 and iOSSDK 4.3. It was 4.1 GB in size and is best done when you knowyou will not be using your Mac.

After the download, the installation went off smoothly. I restartedthe Mac and on a terminal window checked that the gcc compilerwas installed correctly.You can also do man gcc to get the online manual for gcc.

Install Oracle Instant Client

The cx_Oracle has a dependency. It needs Oracle Instant Client from Oracle.Click on the link Instant Client for Mac OS X (Intel x86). Acceptthe license agreement and download Version 10.2.0.4 (64-bit).I tried the 32-bit and it does NOT work. You will need your Oracle accountto download the following packages:

• instantclient-basic-10.2.0.4.0-macosx-x64.zip
• instantclient-sdk-10.2.0.4.0-macosx-x64.zip

I created a directory called oracle to unpack the packages. Thepathname on my machine was /Users/utcs/oracle. On your machine,it will be your user name instead of utcs. I moved both the basicand sdk packages into the oracle directory and unzipped them.After unzipping the basic package I got a folder instantclient_10_2.

After unzipping the sdk package, I got a folder called instantclient_10_2-1. Inside that folder was another folder calledsdk. I moved the folder named sdk inside the folder instantclient_10_2.

From a terminal window I changed directory to sdk. On my machine, thefull path name was /Users/utcs/oracle/instantclient_10_2/sdk. Thereis another .zip file called ottclasses.zip. I unzipped that as follows:It produced a folder called oracle. I changed directory to/Users/utcs/oracle/instantclient_10_2. I ran the following commandto copy all the files in the sdk folder.The last two commands may not have been necessary. But it makes it easierto locate the header files.

Setting up the Environment Variables

In my home directory /Users/utcs I created a .profile file.Its content was as follows:Restart the machine. Open another terminal window and run the followingcommands to check that the environment variables have been setproperly:You should see the path names printed out correctly. I created twosymbolic links in the $ORACLE_HOME directory(/Users/utcs/oracle/instantclient_10_2) as follows:If you run the command ls -l in that directory you should see thesymbolic links.

Building and Installing cx_Oracle

Download from SourceForge cx_Oracle version 5.0.4. You need to get the package that saysSource Code only. In your Download folder you will findcx_Oracle-5.0.4.tar. I moved it to /Users/utcs/oracle. To untar,I used the following command:

After untarring I had a subdirectory called cx_Oracle-5.0.4. Ina terminal window I changed directory to /Users/utcs/oracle/cx_Oracle-5.0.4.I checked in that window that all the environment variables were set properly by doingI did not have administrative privileges on this Mac so to build I didI checked to output. There were many warning messages that Iignored. Even a single error message would have indicated thatthe build process did not succeed. I next installed cx_Oracle byThe install also finished without any error messages.

Test the cx_Oracle installation

On a terminal window type python. It should bring up Python ininteractive mode. Then type import cx_Oracle. It should add thepackage to your path without any errors. Get out of the interactivemode using Control-D.

Now copy and paste this script into a file called Check.py. Change the user name and run it on the command line.You should see Connection successful if all the other testswere successful.