Installation on Microsoft Windows

To run the RWP*Load Simulator on Microsoft Windows, you need an Oracle client (or server) installation version 19 or newer. If you do not already have one, install the 64 bit version of Instant Client for Microsoft Windows. You must use version 19 or later; earlier versions are not sufficient. After install, make sure your PATH includes the top directory of your Instant Client installation. Also, if you do not already have the Microsoft Visual C redistributable, you need to install them as explained on the Instant Client for Windows page. It is suggested that you make sure you can use sqlplus from a command prompt and connect to a database before using rwloadsim or the generated stand alone utilities.

As for Linux, there are two different downloads available: A full installation to be used if you want to run your own rwl programs, and a version that only contains a set of generated executables such as ociping and awrdump. The full installation is preferred except in a case where your interest is simply to use one of the generated executables.

The full installation is named something like rwloadsim-Windows-x86_64-bin-3.2.1.zip, which you should unzip it into an empty directory. You subsequently need to set PATH to contain the expanded \bin directory (in addition to the directory with Instant Client or full Oracle installation).

If you only are interested in the generated executables, the download is named something like generated-Windows-x86_64-bin-3.2.1.zip, which you can unzip to any directory you prefer. It only contains the executables that can be called directly from the directory or you can chose to include the directory in PATH.

Note that on Microsoft Windows, both the generated executables and rwloadsim itself are executed from the command line just like on Linux.

If you are going to run actual simulations, you will need a repository database just like when running on Linux. However, do note that the standard oltp workload is not available on Microsoft Windows.