Done already. Thanks a lot! Regards Haifeng ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Urlwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jeff Urlwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Liu Haifeng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 10:39 PM Subject: RE: Failure of ODBC connection with Access
> 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]) > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
