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> DBD::Oracle install process on Windows XP with Strawberry perl
> Mike Case
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> I started with
> http://win32.perl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Install_DBD::Oracle_on_Strawberry_Perl
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> I could not find a 1.29 where I looked (see url below) so went with
> 1.28.
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> I had installed perl at C:\Perl\strawberry
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> 1) Installed the Oracle instant client by merging all three mentioned
> in that document into one folder structure.
> 2) I had to move my oracle instantclient to
> C:\Oracle\instantclient_11_2
> 3) In the end I set all the following environment variables in DOS.
> I put the Oracle client up front of the path because at some point
> in the process cpan was "finding" a wrong one. In the end I also
> decided to set the ORACLE_HOME myself.
> PATH=C:\Oracle\instantclient_11_2;%PATH%
> PATH=%PATH%;C:\Perl\strawberry\perl\bin;C:\Perl\strawberry\c\bin
> set ORACLE_HOME=C:\Oracle\instantclient_11_2
> 4) I always set this too, but I do not think it is needed for the
> actual install; just for when I'm running my own perl.
> SET PATHEXT=.pl;%PATHEXT%
> 5) I ran cpan which loaded an interactive session for me.
> 6) cpan, set up proxy. I was in a corp. env. and needed to use a
> proxy in cpan. This is cool, it asks for the username and pass-
> word just fine:
> o conf http_proxy http://blah.bla.bl:1234
> 7) set download url. Somehow I unset this :) and could not find the
> original default so I set it to:
> o conf urllist http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/
> 8) perl Makefile.PL ran fine (finally!)
> 9) dmake went fine with some unused variables errors that I ignored.
> 10) dmake test said "passed" even when it did not run a lot of tests
> because there was no local database on my box.
> 11) dmake test worked when I set ORACLE_USERID=my/whatever@ipaddr:port
> but I still had errors which bothers me in principle. However, it
> worked enough to go forward.
> 12) dmake install went fine
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> So for, so good. I can connect to the db and run perl against oracle.
> happy camper.
