What you forgot to read, is that ActiveState comes with PPM, which allows binary installations from the repositories, and therefore you don't have to compile.
ActiveState does not have the current DBI in their repository, so you must install from www.xmlproj.com/PPM Here is how to do it. In command prompt... ppm set repository XMLPROJ http://www.xmlproj.com/PPM Then... ppm install DBI-1_20 This will install DBI 1.20. Then use... ppm install DBD::ODBC To install the ODBC.pm from ActiveState. Ilya -----Original Message----- From: mwm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/16/01 10:25 PM Subject: module install failure 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 ................
