NYCPHP Meetup

[Reto M. Kiefer]

Dear all,

I'm not sure if I'm at the right place to ask, but one of my PHP UG 
Colleagues -- Aaron Wormus .. here in Frankfurt (Germany) suggested to 
me that your group is using a 64bit machine and maybe encountered the 
same problem as I have.

If I'm completely wrong - I say sorry - but I would appreciate a hint to 
whom to write...

The problem:
I try on a 64bit SuSE 9.3 to compile PHP5 --with-oci8-instant-client 
support. Oracle doesn't provide 64bit version of the instant client.

Therefor the compilation fails because of incompatibilities even after 
some modifications in the oracle files (see php.net/oic.8 annotations).
My idea was to compile php as 32bit binarie by providing

export CC='gcc -m32'

to the build process. But with these parameter the other extsenions (the 
one based on libxml2 for example) doesn't work any more.

I work for 4 days on this issue and I'm quite frustrated.

BTW the compilation with the Oracle Client from a Database install 
doen't work either with 64bit even if I'm using the 64bit Version of 
Oracle 9 (i.e. --with-oci8).

I'm thankful for every hint and suggestion.

All the best from Germany

Reto M. Kiefer