I downloaded the DCOracle2-1.1-tar.gz from your site. I intended to compile it on an AIX Unix box with Oracle 8.1.7. The first problem was:

455 0 cutlass fdev /ifadev/Python2.2.1/DCOracle2.1/DCOracle2>make
(cd src; ./testora python)
/ifadev/Python2.2.1/DCOracle2.1/DCOracle2/src
-n Checking ORACLE_HOME...
passed.
-n Checking for Oracle version...
failed.
/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.so not readable; unable to
determine your oracle version.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

because the libcIntsh.so does not exist in the lib directory (it does for 8.0.5) but rather libcIntsh.a

Attached is the results of 'nm /oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/libclntsh.a | grep OCI'.

So I changed src/testora to ignore that check.This time I saw that it assumed Oracle 8.0, and it fell over with:

cc -I/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/rdbms/demo -I/oracle/app/oracle/product/
8.1.7/network/public -I/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/plsql/public -I/oracle/app/oracl
e/product/8.1.7/rdbms/public -O -I/usr/local/include/python1.5 -I/usr/local/include/pyth
on1.5 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -c ./dco2.c
"./dco2.c", line 4534.38: 1506-280 (W) Function argument assignment between types "unsig
ned long*" and "long*" is not allowed.
"./dco2.c", line 5060.25: 1506-068 (W) Operation between types "short*" and "unsigned sh
ort*" is not allowed.
"./dco2.c", line 5103.25: 1506-068 (W) Operation between types "short*" and "unsigned sh
ort*" is not allowed.
./ld_so_aix cc dco2.o -L/oracle/app/oracle/product/8.1.7/lib/ -lclntsh -lcommo
n -lcore4 -lnlsrtl3 -o dco2.so
./ld_so_aix: not found

make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.

So I changed src/testora to assume Oracle 8i. Again the compile fell over with the same error.

Note that $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/demo/*.h does exist. Also we build (compile and link) C/C++ programs on this Unix box (using the OCI libraries).

Could you please advise me what to do? The target environment will be AIX with Oracle 8.1.7. I am also trying to build the Python 2.2.1 release (I used to work with 1.5.2).