Installing drivers
Oracle Database driver installation is an important step in the installation process. You need to complete this step before connecting to an Oracle database.
To install Oracle Database drivers follow these steps:
- Download ODAC for .NET from this location. This specific version of the ODAC driver is required to run Oracle Forms Converter: ODAC112040Xcopy_64bit.
- Follow ODAC driver installation instructions to install it. Particularly,
- Execute the following command as administrator.
install.bat odp.net2 c:\oracle odac
Here, “c:\oracle” is your installation directory and “odac” is the Oracle Home Name that is used for the registry keys. In this example, the registry entry will be created under HKLM\Software\Oracle\KEY_odac.
Note that ODP.NET registry entries are created under HKLM\Software\Oracle\ODP.NET\ rather than under HKLM\Software\Oracle\KEY_. If you install multiple products to the same destination directory, make sure that the Oracle Home Name that is specified as an argument to install.bat is the same for all those products.
- Add the install directory and its bin directory to the system PATH environment variable before any other Oracle directories. Otherwise, the products that are installed may not work properly as Oracle Forms Converter will not be able to load the necessary DLLs. For example, if c:\oracle was provided as the install directory, add c:\oracle and c:\oracle\bin to the system PATH.
- Execute the following command as administrator.
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