Re: DBI:oracle looks for perl56.dll in perl version 5.8

From: Dave Sisk (dsisk_at_nc.rr.com.0nospam0)
Date: 02/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 02:40:30 GMT

Nice find!

This may be a really silly question, but I've downloaded this driver from
the same site....I've got it sitting on my hard drive. How the heck do I
install it using PPM? I can't seem to get PPM to see it...what am I
missing? Is there another way to properly install it?

TIA!
Dave

"Joe Mroczka" <34534534@abc.net> wrote in message
news:tUfZb.41346$ZZ4.20158@newssvr33.news.prodigy.com...
> Problem solved. Downloaded new driver from
> ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.2/DBD-Oracle.ppd
> Everything is fine and dandy now.
>
> "Joe Mroczka" <34534534@abc.net> wrote in message
> news:g2TYb.12275$We1.11289@newssvr31.news.prodigy.com...
> > I have upgraded from perl version 5.6 to 5.8 and all hell seem to have
> > broken loose. For some strange reason, DBI module looks for perl56.dll
> > Can anybody advise me how to fix it? I am running Perl on Windows 2000.
> > A window alert pops out with a title "Perl.exe - unable to locate dll".
> > It displays the following message:
> > "The dynamic library perl56.dll could not be found in the specified
path.
> > <lists the complete path>"
> > I used PPM to install Class-DBI-Oracle.
> >
> >
> > use DBI;
> > $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:TEST",
> > "userid/password\@somename.someco.com", "");
> >
> >
>
>

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