Oracle Database Connection

[ToddAtWSU]

I was able to manually build the driver on my own. I went to the $QTDIR/src/plugins/sqldrivers/oci directory. I then ran

$QTDIR/bin/qmake -o Makefile "INCLUDEPATH+=$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/public" "LIBS+=-L$ORACLE_HOME/lib32" oci.pro

Then I ran make and it all worked well. The library was copied into $QTDIR/plugins/sqldrivers.

Inside my program's makefile I added these lines and also modified my LD_LIBRARY_PATH inside my .cshrc and re-sourced the .cshrc:

In the INC variable I added the line: -I$(QT)/include/QtSql
In the LIBS variable I added the line: -lQtSql
In the LIBHOMES variable I added the line: -L$(QT)/plugins/sqldrivers

I did a make clean followed by a make and everything compiled and linked correctly. But when I ran the program and tried to create a QSqlDatabase I got some printout errors. I first tried to create the database with the line

QSqlDatabase db = QSqlDatabase( "QOCI" );

QSqlDatabase db = QSqlDatabase( "QOCI" );

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The errors that print out are:

QSqlDatabase: QOCI driver not loaded
QSqlDatabse: available drivers:

According to this there are no database drivers installed anywhere. Is there something else I need to do to let the program or Qt know I made the QOCI driver? Thanks!

[ToddAtWSU]

Looking at other posts, it seems I have to make a QApplication to get the plugins. Is this correct? I will look into doing this. Thanks!

Edit: Well I added the QApplication creation call into my main. I made it the VERY first line in main so it would be created right away. Now whenever I try to open the database, it says I don't have OCI support. It says I do have the QSQLLite driver but that is it. I look in the /plugins/sqldrivers directory and it has 2 drivers there, the oci and sqllite drivers. How do I get Qt to recognize the oci driver. I have multiple copies of Qt, but I have set everything up to look at the one with the driver. What do I need to do to make Qt recognize the OCI driver? Thanks!!