> 
> I'm going to try that.  I think I have MSVC 6.0 with no 
> Service Packs installed.

You can safely use SP3.

> 
> What are the problems with higher Service Packs?

SP4 changed the in-memory object layout.  It was discussed on
ActiveState's mailing list over a year ago and it's hard (very) to find,
even if you know what you are looking for.  It took me a while to find
it (maybe I'm not as good of a "searcher" as I should be but SP4 is to
vague and finding the right wording took me a while and weeding through
the results).

> 
> Can it compile under the Visual Studio NET version of VC?

Probably not with 5.6, there are reports on ActiveState's mailing lists
about using VC7 with 5.8, but you get a different run-time library
requirement.  From my experience that's almost always a bad thing,
especially due to memory allocation issues (one library allocates, the
other tries to free...nasty!!!).  YMMV.  I have VC.net installed for
work projects and VC98 installed for Perl.  I do have both.  My command
line uses VC98 settings and I end up using VC.net only in the GUI. 
 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info.  I'll let you know the status....

Nop problem.  

Regards,

Jeff

> 
> > 
> > I installed the DBI and DBD::Oracle modules on a server by
> > copying all the 
> > required files from my workstation.  I had originally used 
> > the files that I had 
> > pulled from ActiveState via ppm.  When I encountered issues 
> > (DBD::Oracle is old 
> > on ActiveState), I downloaded the latest from CPAN and 
> > compiled it manually 
> > with nmake.
> > 
> > I can connect to the database and issue request through
> > dbish, but when I try 
> > to execute fetchrow_hashref in the script, it just quits 
> > without any error 
> > message.  I found out that I  am geting a Signal SEGV on NT 
> > through the Perl 
> > debugger. 
> > 
> > I couldn't find anything meaningful with DBI tracing on, but
> > can supply a trace 
> > dump if necessary.
> > 
> > Note that I am using Oracle 9.2.0.1 on Windows 2000 Server.
> 
> You didn't mention it, but:
>       Are you using MSVC 6.0 SP3 to compile?
> 
> If you are using a different compiler or even SP4 (or above), 
> you will have significant problems.
> 
> You need to backup to SP3 or use pre-compiled modules which 
> were compiled with the correct compiler.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 


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