Gowri schrieb: > I tried to install DBD for mysql in cygwin, the > linking fails because I think it tries to link a > Windows library from mysql and fails.
Create an importlibrary as I described and link against it. > Also is there Perl Package Manager in cygwin? /bin/cpan (the CPAN module) does this job very well. > So, I thought if mysql is compiled in cygwin the > problem will be solved. Is the server running? Can you provide some information about MySQL on Cygwin? > I tried installing ActiveState perl and then > successfully installed DBI and DBD for mysql. But when > I run ActiveState perl in cygwin with full path to > files (like perl /tmp/test.pl) it fails. But (cd /tmp; > perl test.pl) works fine. Since we want to run perl > scripts by full path the perl scripts fail with > ActiveState perl. Also is there any PPM (perl package > manager for cygwin)? Native Windows applications doesn't know about Cygwin's POSIX paths. This is not easy, IIRC there was a wrapper to use AS Perl from Cygwin, but since Perl is available for Cygwin I don't use AS Perl anymore... PPM, no, use CPAN. Gerrit -- =^..^=
