OCI.dll Missing. Install problem for Windows 7.

[Ansego Hannover]

Hi,

When ever I try to install Composer I get the following error:

'The program can't start because OCI.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the prgram to fix this problem.'

I am on Windows 7 up to date with patches and AppServ for the webserver.

Looking forward in using Composer for the first time ;-) I hear good things.

Re

Ansego.

[Jordi Boggiano]

On 16/06/2014 18:48, Ansego Hannover wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When ever I try to install Composer I get the following error:
>

> '/The program can't start because OCI.dll is missing from your computer.
> Try reinstalling the prgram to fix this problem./'

>
> I am on Windows 7 up to date with patches and AppServ for the webserver.
>
> Looking forward in using Composer for the first time ;-) I hear good things.

This is probably an issue with your php.ini, either some extension is
loaded that shouldn't be, or an auto prepend file does weird things.

Either way this comes from php and not composer, so I am not sure what's
up. Perhaps you have multiple php.exe installed and the one used by the
command line is broken?

Try to disable any pdo/oracle extension from php.ini unless you
specifically need them.

Cheers

--
Jordi Boggiano
@seldaek - http://nelm.io/jordi

[Ansego Hannover]

I've updated php, changed php treaded / non treaded etc got other dll missing errors found online and replaced but not found OCI.dll from a good source yet. driving me nutts... It only happens when I try to install composer, so it has something to do with that. Would of hoped the installer would of had all this stuff or some kind of FAQ on it... With hope one of you have some idea's about fixing this and thanks Jordi for your reply. Yet to try disable pdo/oracle extention, will do in the next two hours for test. 

[Rolf Harald Holmvik]

I just ran into the exact same problem with 32-bit PHP on Windows 8.1. You can get OCI.dll by downloading the basic version of the Oracle Instant Client here for 32-bit or here for 64-bit. The DLL is included in the ZIP archive.

Note that you need to log in with an Oracle Account to access the downloads.

[angelor tuyo]

I found a solution , comment out all the oci8 module, in your php.ini file it worked for me.

check out this link -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23753782/cant-found-oci-dll-when-php-exe-try-to-execute-on-winxp