using AS perl 5.6 on winNT4.0 sp6 & new to perl
I have spent the entire weekend trying to install DBI 1.20 24th Aug 2001
First I followed the instructions in its readme file.
that didn't work after the 1st step: perl Makefile.PL
as i don't have a make, nmake, ect..
after reading perldoc for DBI.PM & spending countless hours reading web doc
on several sites i also tried the following.
Second using web docs I tried to run: perl -MCPAN -e shell
cpan> install DBD::ODBC
that didn't work because:
'can't locate loadable object for module DBI in @INC (@INC contains:
C:/Perl/lib C:/Perl/site/lib) at C:/Perl/lib/DBI.pm line 189
BEFORE this attempt I did run: cpan> install DBI
the result was that the DBI.pm already install is current or somthing to that effect.
I checked and DBI.pm is in the right place under C:/Perl/lib.
Third I tried to run: ppm from a cmd prompt
then at: PPM> search
after a short wait the ppm prompt returns without any results,
docs say i should get a list of modules.
also tried to see if i could install this: PPM> install DBD::ODBC
results were: retrieving package 'DBD-ODBC'......
Error installing package 'DBD-ODBC' : Could not locate
a PPD file for package DBD-ODBC
Forth I went to ActiveState's archives downloaded the dbdodbc.zip file
unzipped/expanded the files and followed the readme file, which says
run the following command in the current directory: ppm install DBD-ODBC.ppd
results were simular to the third attemp: Error installing package 'DBD-ODBC' :
Could not locate a PPM binary of 'DBD-ODBC.ppd' for this platform
I have spent two days trying to work arround these problems without any success.
I thought originally, that if I knew where the expand/unzipped files belong
it would be just a matter of moving 'somemodule.pm' to its correct home.
I know that my errors are caused by syntax errors but ................
