On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 09:07:31AM -0700, E. Alan Hogue wrote:
> I need to hook up to an Access database running, of
> course, on a win32 system. I am completely new to DBI.
> I found a DBD on CPAN for ODBC, but the documentation
> attached to it only covered using it with Cygwin. I
> would love to put Cygwin on my machine at work, but
> wonder if the powers that be would be scandalized. Is
> it necessary to use Cygwin to use DBI with Access, or
> is it possible to get everything running with
> activestate and regular old windows 2000? If so, can
> anyone point me to a good source of information on how
> to do this?
Using DBI with DBD::ADO or DBD::ODBC connects to an Access file. If
you're using Activestate's win32 version of perl PPM will install
DBD::ODBC for you. DBD::ADO installs with DBI (for now, this may
change in the near future). However, I recommend you upgrade to the
latest version of DBD::ADO available on CPAN.
> it necessary to use Cygwin to use DBI with Access, or
> is it possible to get everything running with
> activestate and regular old windows 2000? If so, can
You'll only need Cygwin if you compile perl and DBI/DBD::* from the
source files. Everything "should" be available from AS.
> anyone point me to a good source of information on how
> to do this?
The DBI list archive is a good place to start. dbi.perl.org DBI home
page.
Tom
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