Ahh...thanks John. I forgot that BINARY_LOCATION needs to be passed when doing perl Makefile.PL, not when doing nmake... I fixed my script and the one up on the ftp site.
Regards, Jeff > > > Jeff Urlwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >> > >> 2. The perl I use is also Activeperl build 633. I have no idea why I > >> cannot install dbd::odbc succesfully. > > > > I don't know. It might be a flag in the ppd file, but the ppd is > > generated by MakeMaker directly. It also says, in the ppd file, that > > the architecture is <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" /> > > > > The "DBD-ODBC.ppd" from ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/. comes with an > empty "codebase href" entry. You need to edit in the *.tar.gz file > location thus: > <CODEBASE HREF="DBD-ODBC.tar.gz" /> > then from the DOS Prompt in the directory where the *.ppd and *.tar.gz > files are located type: > ppm remove DBD-ODBC.ppd > to remove any existing DBD-ODBC module, then type: > ppm install DBD-ODBC.ppd > > HTH > > -- > Regards > John McMahon (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > > > >
