On Windows, at this time, it seems that ActiveState has released a binary version of DBD::Oracle. I do not know how long it's been out there, but I did install it tonight. I have briefly tested this using Active Perl 5.8.7 (build 813).
I successfully ran: ppm install DBD-Oracle When the Oracle instant client license acknowledgement came up, I selected NO, as I have an Oracle client loaded. If you select Yes, it starts to download the Oracle instant client. I would suggest that people start trying the Active Perl ppm version rather than mine at www.esoftmatic.com/DBI. If it works, I'm going to get out of the pre-building business. Personally, I would also like to hear success/failure of those using the instant client which is downloaded. Regards, Jeff