About the Oracle Instant Client SDK

Learn about the software development kit (SDK) development tools for Oracle Instant Client.

The software development kit (SDK) is a set of development tools that you can use to create applications for Oracle Instant Client. The SDK is available for download as an RPM or a zip file. For example, oracle-instantclient-devel-21.1.0.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm and instantclient-sdk-linux.x64-21.1.0.0.0.zip.

The SDK contains the following:

  • Both C and C++ header files and a makefile for developing OCI and OCCI applications while in an Oracle Instant Client environment. Developed applications can be deployed in any client environment.
  • Both C and C++ demonstration programs.
  • The Object Type Translator (OTT) utility and its classes to generate application header files.
  • On Linux, the demo.mk makefile is included to build demos. For example, the instantclient_21_1 directory must be in the runtime library search path, and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before linking the application.