I was trying to continue with the discussion at
but did not find an option to reply, probably due to the fact the discussion was marked as archived eventhough not answered.
We still use and develop programs in Oracle Developer environment at our organization. We are well aware of a need to move forward newer technologies like web forms, ADF or similar but most of the stuff should be well trained prior to such an action which sould also be well planned and sponsored by our executives.
As we have to fullfill customer's requests on daily basis and with our machines getting upgraded to 64 bit OS, we were looking for a solution on how to install Oracle Forms & Reports 6i development and runtime environment on Windows 7 64 bit platform. We came across this link:
Installing Oracle Developer (forms & reports 6i) on Windows 7 64bit | Duh! Microsoft did it again
Following the given instructions we were more or less successful in achiving stable installation. So, I would like to add some notes:
1. Install with full administrative privileges, running "setup.exe" as administrator (right click -> "Run as Administrator").
2. First, install your Oracle Developer 2000 R2 product in two steps:
a) install Forms Developer option -> Typical Install -> Choose "NO" for Server installation
when installtion finishes:
b) install Reports Developer option -> Typical Install -> Choose "NO" for Server installation
3. Install the latest patch (Patch 4948577: RELEASE 6I : PATCH 18)
4. Follow the link provided above ..
5. ORACLE registry key is moved (redirected) from HKLM -> Software -> Oracle => HKLM -> Software -> Wow6432Node -> Oracle
6. You will have to manually add UI_ICON key: HKLM -> Software -> Wow6432Node -> Oracle -> UI_ICON
7. DO NOT INSTALL OVER "REMOTE DESKTOP" or OTHER REMOTE ACCESS SOFTWARE, install directly on the machine!
(we had strange problems with CE characters in our applications )
8. REMOVE COMPATIBILITY FLAG for your executables!!
I have found out that IFBLD60.EXE had "Run this program in compatibility mode for.." flag checked (look at file properties under "Compatibility" tab) and IFRUN60.EXE did not. If I opened a form in the builder I did not see icons on my "iconic" buttons, but when I opened the compiled form with ifrun60.exe, icons were ok. Removing the flag solved the issue.
9. Check you system environment variables
I would advise you to remove C:\orant\jdk\bin from PATH variable since it might be used when running some other java programs and it realy is out of date JDK version.
Make sure C:\orant\bin is included in PATH variable.
I can now continue to develop and run forms & reports on my new, high performance Windows 7 64 bit machine!