On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Scottie Thompson wrote: >I recently installed DBD::Informix on a Win NT machine, which appears to be >working just fine.
Good. >But I haven't been able to get it working in Win 2000. I haven't tried - I don't have a Win2K machine to do the trying on. >Has anyone been able to do this? > > >Background: > >I downloaded the Informix Client SDK 2.70, and DBD-Informix-1.00.PC1, >and built it for Win NT. There were a lot of error during the nmake >test, I seem to remember there was a critical change in one of the ESQL/C headers, which was documented in the notes somewhere. Additionally, the default compilation mode on NT is with a very high warning level enabled. >but the module seemed to work well enough. Then, I did the same thing >for Win 2000 (yes, I rebuilt it). Again, there were a lot of errors >during the nmake test part, but this time when I tried to run my test >script, perl crashed with a memory protection error. That is always worrying. Have you been able to identify which routine caused the trouble? Was it plain Perl or down in the DBD::Informix driver? >My test script just connects to a remote database, prepares 1 sql >select statement (which pulls 1 record from 1 table), executes the sql >and disconnects. And the failure was on which of those statements? >Scottie Thompson >Network Systems Programmer >Point Loma Nazarene University -- Yours, Jonathan Leffler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix v1.00.PC1 -- http://www.perl.com/CPAN "I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it!"
