OCI: Building OCI7 Related Samples Like Readpipe.c On Windows 64bit Will Fail During Runtime While Working On Windows 32bit Or Linux/Unix 64bit Without Problem

(Doc ID 1350698.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 22, 2011

Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 10.2.0.1 and later   [Release: 10.2 and later ]
Microsoft Windows x64 (64-bit)

Symptoms

Building and running OCI application using OCI7 functions like oopen() on Windows 64bit  - for example

%ORACLE_HOME%\oci\samples\readpipe.c

won't work while same sample is working on Linux / Unix 64bit or Windows 32bit without problems.

Changes

Switching build target from Windows 32bit to Windows 64bit

Cause

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