Chas: I do have Oracle client libraries installed -- version 10.2.0.3 (10gR2). What should I do to make DBD::Oracle installer (or) Cygwin shell realize that I do have Oracle client libraries? The Oracle client is there in the path through my Environmental Variables of the system.
C:\>sqlplus user/p...@db SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Fri Dec 19 14:43:08 2008 Copyright (c) 1982, 2006, Oracle. All Rights Reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options u...@db> select sysdate from dual; SYSDATE --------- 19-DEC-08 Thanks, Rex On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Chas. Owens <chas.ow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 14:04, Rex <perlici...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Thanks a lot for a lucid response, Chas. Following your advice, I was >> able to successfully install DBI on my work laptop (XP), but not on my >> home machine (Vista x64 Home Premium). >> >> However, even in my XP box, I am unable to install DBD::Oracle. > snip > > You must have the Oracle client libraries to build DBD::Oracle. > > -- > Chas. Owens > wonkden.net > The most important skill a programmer can have is the ability to read. > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/