ODAC Net Edition 5.55 and Oracle Client

[michellenweiter]

I've installed Delphi 2005 on Windows XP SP2 and ODAC NET v5.55.
When I try to open a session, I got this error message: "cannot find OCI DLL:"
I've seach for this oci.dll file on my local disks, but cannot find it.

Do I need to install the Oracle Client to solve this problem, or is it ODAC which should provide this file ?

Thanks for your help
mitch

[walidn]

you have to install instant client for oracle 10g

[andypost]

you have to install instant client for oracle 10g

What do you meen? Oracle Instant Client does not need installing!!!
Take a look at http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/o ... lient.html

Installation Steps:

1. Download the appropriate Instant Client packages for your platform. All installations REQUIRE the Basic package.

2. Unzip the packages into a single directory such as "instantclient".

3. Set the library loading path in your environment to the directory in Step 2 ("instantclient"). On many UNIX platforms, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is the appropriate environment variable. On Windows, PATH should be used.

4. Start your application and enjoy.

[michellenweiter]

I've installed the Oracle client and it works fine.
What has confused me, was the description of ODAC Net telling that we do not need to install the Oracle Client, wich is absolute correct on the computer for the end-user, but we still have to install it on the computer for the developers.

Thanks for your help