I have the Active Perl 5.6.1 build 635. I tried to install the DBD::Oracle.
C:\>ppm PPM interactive shell (2.2.0) - type 'help' for available commands. PPM> install dbd-oracle Install package 'dbd-oracle?' (y/N): y Installing package 'dbd-oracle'... Downloading http://ppm.ActiveState.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus/MSWin32-x86-multi- thread/DBD-Oracle.tar.gz ... Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\Oracle\Oracle.bs Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\Oracle\Oracle.dll Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\Oracle\Oracle.exp Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBD\Oracle\Oracle.lib Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\Oraperl.html Installing C:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\Oracle.html Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\oraperl.ph Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\Oraperl.pm Installing C:\Perl\site\lib\DBD\Oracle.pm Installing C:\Perl\bin\ora_explain Installing C:\Perl\bin\ora_explain.bat PPM> exit Quit! The installation was successful. But the problem is when i tried to run a script to get connected through an Oracle Database Server on another system i recieved the following error C:\PROGS>perl remote_db_connection.pl install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll' for module DBD::Oracle: load_file:─ίΊ ▐Ϊ Ϊⁿ Ίά ίΊΪΎΏώ≤Ϊί▀ ύ ΆάϋΎ�ώ≤Ή▌Ίύ ΉΎΊ▄ϊά at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 206. Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 3. Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
