I checked all my systems and only the instantclient has libociei.so. Thanks for bringing that up, since I did all my testing on regular clients (non-instant). I’ll add the note to the main post.

Vinny

Note, the solution posted here is missing a critical so file. I got mine to work by setting my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to my $ORACLE_HOME/instantclient and changing the pp to include an additional module:
pp -z 9 -v 3 -p -d -o MyDB.par \
-X DBD::Proxy \
-X DBD::DBM \
-X DBD::File \
-X DBD::NullP \
-X DBD::Gofer \
-X DBD::Sponge \
-X DBD::ExampleP \
-X DBD::mysql \
-X DBD::Gofer::Policy::rush \
-X DBD::Gofer::Policy::classic \
-X DBD::Gofer::Policy::Base \
-X DBD::Gofer::Policy::pedantic \
-X DBD::Gofer::Transport::pipeone \
-X DBD::Gofer::Transport::Base \
-X DBD::Gofer::Transport::stream \
-X DBD::Gofer::Transport::null \
-X DBD::mysql::GetInfo \
-X DBD::Chart \
-X DBD::Chart::Plot \
-M MyDB \
-M PerlIO \
-l libclntsh.so.10.1 \
-l libnnz10.so \
-l libociei.so \
dummy.pl

Cheers,
~ Jon

I’ve been struggling with this issue for days. How did you get around setting the ORACLE_HOME system variable on the client machine?

With your instructions above I receive the following error on a client machine (Oracle not installed):
DBI connect(‘host=;port=1521;sid=test’,'test’,…) failed: ERROR OCIEnvNlsCreate. Check ORACLE_HOME (Linux) env var or PATH (Windows) and or NLS settings, permissions, etc. at DbConnect.pm line 103

As you might guess, line 103 contains the DBI->connect call.

Now, I’ve verified that the files are indeed extracted to $ENV{‘PAR_TEMP’}. When ORACLE_HOME is unset I get the above error message. I’ve attempted to set ORACLE_HOME to $ENV{‘PAR_TEMP’} but this doesn’t do the trick. I’ve even gone as far as copying the files from $ENV{‘PAR_TEMP’} to $ENV{‘PAR_TEMP’}/lib (which is where Oracle expects to find the .so files). This also hasn’t worked.

So to reiterate my question. How have you solved the problem with setting the ORACLE_HOME environment variable?

Thanks,
~ Jon