On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:17:24 +0530, Murthy Pydikondala wrote: >While I am trying to install perl DBI on >Windows 2000 Professional, I am getting the following error after I >executed nmake.exe
>'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, >Binary build 810 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.com >ActiveState is a division of Sophos. You're trying to install an XS module from source without a C compiler. (cl is the command line C compiler from MS Visual C.) Try installing a precompiled version, with PPM. You could Google around for a more recent version of DBI for PPM than what ActiveState itself is providing, by searching from the magic words "DBI ppd". You need to find the URL for a "DBI*.ppd" file (the star represents a glob, thus any string) compatible with your Perl version (in your case 5.8.x), and point PPM to it. For example, <http://www.cedet.dk/perl/> appears to be carrying DBI version 1.43. -- Bart.
