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-23.4.0.24.05-1.el8.x86_64.rpm for Oracle Linux 8 RPM and oracle-instantclient-devel-23.4.0.24.05-1.el9.x86_64.rpm for Oracle Linux 9 RPM. Similarly, for example, instantclient-sdk-linux.x64-23.4.0.24.05.zip for the zip file.

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_23_4 directory must be in the runtime library search path, and set LD_LIBRARY_PATH before linking the application.