Oracle Call Interface Getting Started for Windows Platforms

Installing Oracle Call Interface

System Requirements
Before You Install
Installation Overview
Installation
Performing Other Installation Tasks

System Requirements

This section lists the minimum required hardware and software necessary to install and run Oracle Call Interface for Windows NT/95.

IBM, COMPAQ, or 100% compatible PC with an 80386 processor, or higher
a connected CD-ROM drive, functioning as a logical drive
8 Megabytes (MB) of available RAM
a total of 12 MB of hard disk space for the following product components:
operating system software:
- Microsoft Windows NT Version 3.51 or Windows 95 (for 32-bit)
- Microsoft Windows 3.1 (for 16-bit)
access to an Oracle7 Server
Required Support Files (RSF)
SQL*Net for Windows or Windows NT/95 (required for full syntactical and semantic checking of SQL statements and for any embedded PL/SQL blocks)

In addition to the system requirements listed above, you must also install the following software:

your preferred application development environment:
- Microsoft Visual C++ (32-bit Version 4.0 or higher, 16-bit Version 1.5 or higher)
- Borland C++ (32-bit Version 4.5 or higher [for Windows NT], Version 5.0 for Windows 95, 16-bit Version 4.5 or higher)
  
  Note For the Microsoft C Compiler, OCI supports application development with medium and large memory models only.

Before You Install

Before you install Oracle Call Interface, make sure that you perform the following tasks:

read the Desktop Products Customer Information booklet and return your registration card to the appropriate support center.
review the accompanying Release Notes.
install and test your network hardware and software, if applicable.

Installation Overview

After you have loaded your operating system and network software and verified that they are operating properly, you are ready to install Oracle Call Interface.

Installing the Oracle Call Interface software entails two procedures:

setting up Oracle Installer on your hard drive by starting the Installer application from the CD-ROM. After you start the application, Oracle Installer performs the following tasks:

installing the OCI software by starting Oracle Installer from your hard drive, inserting the CD-ROM, and choosing Install. Oracle Installer performs the following tasks:

creates the OCI directory
installs the Required Support Files

installs Oracle Call Interface

Note If you have recently installed another Oracle for Windows NT/95 product, the most current version of Oracle Installer should already be set up on your hard drive. If it is not, Oracle Installer will detect the older version and prompt you to install the latest Oracle Installer from your distribution media.

Installation

You can use any CD-ROM drive that can be attached to your machine as a logical drive to set up Oracle Installer on your hard drive and install OCI. This Guide treats the G:\> logical drive as the CD-ROM drive, although Oracle Installer and your operating system will recognize any drive for which you have configured the CD-ROM.

Before running Oracle Installer from the CD-ROM, be sure you have read your third-party CD-ROM documentation. Also, refer to that documentation if the installed CD-ROM drive cannot copy files to your hard drive.

Setting Up the Installer on Your Hard Drive

The following steps describe how to set up Oracle Installer on your hard drive. If you already have the latest version of Oracle Installer on your hard drive, you can skip these steps and proceed to the next section. If you are not sure you have installed the latest version of Oracle Installer, proceed with Step 1.

With your Windows operating system running, mount the Oracle CD-ROM.

Run ORAINST.EXE

G:\NT_X86\INSTALL\ORAINST.EXE (for Windows NT)

G:\NWIN95\INSTALL\ORAINST.EXE (for Windows 95)

G:\WINDOWS\INSTALL\ORAINST.EXE (for Windows)

If you are using Oracle Installer for the first time, you are prompted to select a language.

Select a language and choose OK, or press [Enter] to accept the default language. Once you have set up Oracle Installer on your hard drive, you will not receive this prompt in subsequent uses of Oracle Installer.
Specify the company name, then choose OK. If you have already installed Oracle products, Oracle Installer prompts you with the existing Oracle directory. Otherwise, it prompts you to enter the drive and directory path on which the Oracle products will be installed.
Choose OK or press [Enter] to accept the default path. If you want to change the destination drive or directory, type in your custom path, then choose OK. Oracle Installer advises you if it makes changes to your system. If the installation procedure made changes to your operating system's initialization files, Oracle Installer prompts you to exit your operating system and restart your computer.
If prompted, exit and restart your computer now.

Installing Oracle Call Interface

Start Oracle Installer as described earlier in this chapter.
Answer prompts (company name and language). The Software Asset Manager appears.
The Software Asset Manager contains the following windows:
Available Products--Lists all of the products available from the CD-ROM.
Installed Products--Lists all Oracle products installed in your Oracle home directory.
Status--Provides feedback on the task you are performing.
Oracle Installer also contains an on-line help facility. To display help on the features and functions of Oracle Installer, select Using Oracle Installer from the Help menu.
If no installable products appear in the Available Products window when you first start Oracle Installer, choose the From button. Then, from the Open dialog, choose the CD-ROM drive letter (e.g., G:\) from the Drives list, and choose the \INSTALL directory from the Directories list. Select the *.PRD file and choose Open.
Scroll through the list of products and select OCI.
Choose Install to begin installing OCI.

During installation, a progress bar shows the percentage of the installation that has completed. Messages are displayed indicating file names and Oracle Installer actions that are being taken. Oracle Installer allows you to cancel the installation by choosing Cancel during the installation procedure.

When the installation is complete, Oracle Installer displays the installed products. Note that Oracle Call Interface and other installed products are listed in the Installed Products window.

Choose Exit from the File menu to exit Oracle Installer.

Performing Other Installation Tasks

After installing Oracle products, you may want to perform some of the following tasks:

Listing Installed Products

To list the products currently installed on your system, run Oracle Installer and select Installed Products from the View Menu. Oracle Installer displays the names and version numbers of all the products you have installed.

Removing Installed Products

To remove an Oracle product from your hard disk, run Oracle Installer. Use the arrow keys to highlight the product you want to remove and choose the Remove button.

Removing a product in this manner deletes all the files associated with that product from your hard disk. Removing a product does not delete that product's tables from the database.

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