Hi All,
I noticed Strawberry didn't come with DBD::Oracle. What was the
reason for that?
I've just built DBD::Oracle on Windows 7 with Perl 5.16.2 x64 with all
tests passing. I added how I did it as comments to the Pythan article here:
http://www.pythian.com/news/11115/dbdoracle-and-windows-64bit/#comment-1385661
I can see that this has been in RT for a while:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=48796
ActivePerl ships with DBD::Oracle, although you have to download the
client libraries yourself. This would appear to be the only feasible way
forward. As it stands people are either having to:
1) Download the DBD::Oracle sources, download the client libraries,
compile and build. This is time consuming, especially if you want the
tests to pass as the documentation isn't clear.
2) Download the ActivePerl ppm, download the client libraries, hope you
have the right client libraries and the path set right so it works.
If Strawberry Perl came with DBD::Oracle and clear instructions on how
to install the client libraries, or better still, the installer had an
option for downloading and installing them for you, I think that would
be best.
Thoughts?
Lyle
