On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:44 PM, Derek Lac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I've spent 2 days trying to isntall DBD. I think there must be some servers
> down because it's not easy to install.
I would guess that you're not using the correct set of tools.
> Here's part of the code that fails:
> DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:buildstatus:$dbserver", $user, $password) ;
> It says cannot locate DBD/mysql.pm.
>
> I've downloaded DBD-mysql-4.009.tar and DBI-1.607.tar. Both have problems
> compile or running Perl.
> For DBI, I get C:PerlActivebinaryperl.exe: no found.
This happens when you use GNU make on Windows. Have you tried nmake
or dmake? What compiler are you using?
> For DBD, after loading vcvars32, and few other fixes, I get make: Error --
> Don't know hwo to make C:\PerlActive\libConfig.pm.
What Perl are you using? ActiveState? Depending on how they compile
Perl (which compiler and makefile parser), any subsequent modules
built against that Perl need to use the same set of tools, as the
makefiles are generated to be used with the same set of tools that
were used to build Perl itself.
> I've also used the cpan. It gives some funny command characters.
> I've also used ppm manager and install a few modules. None shows for
> DBD-mysql however.
Again, what Perl are you using? ActiveState? If so, what version of
ActiveState? I see DBD::mysql modules in PPM for ActiveState 5.8:
http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.8/819/
I can't really find a module listing for 5.10 however.
Thanks,
Brian
