You can't use DBI::PurePerl with a NON-pure-perl driver.
Tim.
On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 08:19:57AM +0200, Frederic Van de Velde wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run some perl (currently 5.00503) on AIX 4.3 to connect an
> Oracle 8 database on the same system (DBD::Oracle is 1.06)
> My problem is that I want to use the "HandleError" method of DBI but I
> only find a pre-compiled version of DBI 1.14 which doens't have this
> method yet.
> As I can't compile anything on this system, I'm trying to use
> DBI::PurePerl (I don't need performance and only want to do a SELECT and
> some little UPDATE).
>
> With this little script, I got an error :
> Use of uninitialized value at
> /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.00503/aix/DynaLoader.pm line 188.
> error: install_driver(Oracle) failed: Unable to get DBI state. DBI not
> loaded. at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.00503/aix/DynaLoader.pm line 188.
> at testoracle.pl line 15
>
> BEGIN {
> $ENV{DBI_PUREPERL} = 2;
> $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = "/oracle";
> unshift @INC, 'lib';
> }
>
> use strict;
> use DBI;
>
> my $dbh;
> eval {
> $dbh = DBI->connect(
> "DBI:Oracle:sid=ORCL;port=1521;host=oracle_host",
> "username",
> "password"
> );
> };
>
> if ( $@ ) {
> print "error: $@\n";
> }
>
>
>
