Erich Markert wrote:
> I've been trying to get the msql-mysql-modules compiled and installed on
> my Win98 machine for a couple weeks without much luck.
I managed to get these working on NT4 with both 5.005_03 and 5.6.0 (both
built myself from the standard distribution, not the ActiveState build)
after a bit of hacking...
> I tried using the latest version of perl 5.6 from active state but ran
> into nothing but problems. Basically running perl Makefile.PL for
> Data::ShowTable (a required module) failed because the version of perl
> couldn't be determined - even after reinstalling.
I also had trouble with this when I had mSQL installed. It said "Unable to
find a perl 5" and then proceeded to name the files it was looking for
(including perl.exe!) and the directories where it was looking (including
D:\perl5\bin, which is where it was!). To my surprise, I found that
uninstalling mSQL and then trying to build Data::ShowTable again worked
fine! Weird. Anyway, I've now ditched mSQL in favour of the much better
MySQL which doesn't suffer this problem.
I don't know if this is the same problem you had -- you might have a
different problem because you're using the ActiveState build? I never had
much luck building any CPAN modules with that, which is why I never use
it...
I do still get 17/17 tests failed when running "nmake test" (!!!), but its
enough to stop msql-mysql-modules complaining that a pre-requisite is
missing.
> I finally reverted back the a previous version of perl (Gurusamy
> Sarathy's version 5.004_02) and was able to get Data::ShowTable and DBI
> installed but now when I run perl Makefile.PL for Msql-Mysql-modules I
> receive these errors:
>
> Note (probably harmless): No library found for 'm.lib'
I got a similar message regarding "-lm" which I just ignored (!!!... well,
it said it was probably harmless :-)
I also found that I had to hack the Makefile generated by "perl Makefile.PL"
to change the two lines which say:
-e ppp '...' '...' '...'
to:
-e "ppp('...', '...', '...')"
and I hacked the Makefile in the mysql sub-directory to change:
OTHERLDFLAGS = -LD:\mysql/lib/opt
to:
OTHERLDFLAGS = -LIBPATH:D:\mysql/lib/opt
None of this was necessary on my Solaris 2.6 box, however, where everything
went like a dream...
- Steve Hay
