Jan Dubois wrote: > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Martin J. Evans wrote: >> As ActiveState do not release development builds (no criticism >> intended) I am looking at producing a ppm for people to try. > > Note that everyone can also just compile the module for themselves > with ActivePerl: > > cpan M/MJ/MJEVANS/DBD-ODBC-1.23_4.tar.gz > > If you don't have Microsoft VC on your PATH, then this will download > and install MinGW for you (inside the Perl tree) and use that instead. > > This should work for the latest builds of all major Perl versions, > 5.8.9.827, 5.10.1.1007 and 5.12.0.1200. On older versions you may > need to install MinGW with PPM "by-hand" first: > > ppm install MinGW > cpan M/MJ/MJEVANS/DBD-ODBC-1.23_4.tar.gz > > On ActivePerl 5.8.8 and earlier you will have to download, install > and configure MinGW and dmake manually though, so you may not want > to bother... > > Cheers, > -Jan > > >
Thanks Jan and sorry I missed some of the chat on #dbi yesterday that I guess led to this. I will add your advice to DBD::ODBC. Martin -- Martin J. Evans Easysoft Limited http://www.easysoft.com
