Hello, I downloaded the latest Oracle DBD 1.8 and tried to install the same in one of our Windows 2003 server.
We installed all the pre-requisites softwares like 1. Oracle XE 2. Windows Platform SDK 3. Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 4. Microsoft .NET SDK Framework I also modified the VCVARS32.BAT file as per the README file. Perl MakeFile.pl was successful but when I try "nmake install" the install fails with the dialog box saying "This application has failed to start because mspdb60.dll was not found. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem". I reinstalled Visual Studio software and tried again and got the same error. Following is the copy of the installation log from command line: C:\Temp\DBD-Oracle-1.1.6\DBD-Oracle-1.16>nmake test Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.8168.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved. Skip blib\lib\DBD\Oracle.pm (unchanged) Skip blib\lib/oraperl.ph (unchanged) Skip blib\arch\auto\DBD\Oracle/dbdimp.h (unchanged) Skip blib\arch\auto\DBD\Oracle/ocitrace.h (unchanged) Skip blib\lib/Oraperl.pm (unchanged) Skip blib\arch\auto\DBD\Oracle/Oracle.h (unchanged) Skip blib\lib\DBD\Oracle\GetInfo.pm (unchanged) cp mk.pm blib\arch\auto\DBD\Oracle/mk.pm cl -c -ID:/oracle/ora92/oci/include -ID:/oracle/ora92/rdbms/demo -ID:\P erl\lib\auto\DBI -nologo -GF -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_S TRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTE XT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DVERSION=\"1.16\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.16\" "-ID:\Perl\lib\CORE" -DUTF8_SUPPOR T -DNEW_OCI_INIT -DORA_OCI_VERSION=\"9.2.0.7\" Oracle.c NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x80' Stop. C:\Temp\DBD-Oracle-1.1.6\DBD-Oracle-1.16>nmake test Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 6.00.8168.0 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1988-1998. All rights reserved. cl -c -ID:/oracle/ora92/oci/include -ID:/oracle/ora92/rdbms/demo -ID:\P erl\lib\auto\DBI -nologo -GF -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_S TRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT -DNO_HASH_SEED -DUSE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTE XT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DVERSION=\"1.16\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.16\" "-ID:\Perl\lib\CORE" -DUTF8_SUPPOR T -DNEW_OCI_INIT -DORA_OCI_VERSION=\"9.2.0.7\" Oracle.c NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'cl' : return code '0x80' Stop. Please help out as this is very urgent. Also please suggest that is there any other way through which I can write Perl programs to connect to Oracle db. Thanks in advance. Regards, Shahul Hameed N.N. ____________________________________________ Motorola MDB IT - Application Global Support Team Tel: +1.847.523.4427 (Work) +1.847.204.7631 (Mobile) +1.847.984.2909 (Home) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________________________________