(Fwd) Hello ... Regarding DBD:Oracle

From: Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce_at_pobox.com)
Date: 03/23/04


Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 17:17:43 +0000
To: dbi-users@perl.org


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From: "Surjyendu Prakash" <surjyendu@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Hello ... Regarding DBD:Oracle
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:26:23 +0530
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Hi Tim

I am getting error while building the makefile.pl for DBD-Oracle
I am mentioning the details below.

Can you help me me in this regard? waiting for your reply at earliest.

Thanks
Surjyendu

WHAT I WANT TO DO
- I WANT TO RUN PERL FILES TO CONNECT ORACLE (8i))

I am running windows 2000 professional and using cygwin perl, and Oracle 81

WHAT I HAVE DONE
- I INSTALLED DBI MODULE SUCESSFULLY
- i set the ORACLE_HOME = "c:\oracle\ora81"
- NOW I WANT TO INSTALL ORACLE modules , i downloaded the
DBD-Oracle-1.15.tar.gz file from cpan and unzip under DBD-Oracle-1.15
folder,
then i run perl makefile.pl and got the following error

$ perl makefile.pl
Using DBI 1.42 (for perl 5.008 on cygwin-multi-64int) installed in
/usr/lib/perl
5/site_perl/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int/auto/DBI

Configuring DBD::Oracle ...

>>> Remember to actually *READ* the README file!
       Especially if you have any problems.

Using Oracle in C:/oracle/ora81

WARNING: could not decode oracle version from
C:/oracle/ora81/orainst/inspdver, or C:/oracle/ora81/install/unix.rgs
or from ORACLE_HOME path C:/oracle/ora81.
Oracle version based logic in Makefile.PL may produce erroneous results.

Found oci directory
Using OCI directory 'oci'

Checking for functioning wait.ph

System: perl5.008 cygwin_nt-5.0 ismene 1.3.22(0.7832) 2003-03-18 09:20 i586
unkn
own unknown cygwin
Compiler: gcc -O3 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing
Linker: /usr/bin/ld
Sysliblist:

Warning: If you have problems you may need to rebuild perl with
-Uusemymalloc.

LD_RUN_PATH=C:/oracle/ora81/lib:C:/oracle/ora81/rdbms/lib
Using DBD::Oracle 1.15.
Using DBD::Oracle 1.15.
Using DBI 1.42 (for perl 5.008 on cygwin-multi-64int) installed in
/usr/lib/perl
5/site_perl/5.8.0/cygwin-multi-64int/auto/DBI
Writing Makefile for DBD::Oracle

*** If you have problems...
    read all the log printed above, and the README and README.help files.
    (Of course, you have read README by now anyway, haven't you?)

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