RE: Windows to Oracle

From: Graeme St. Clair (Graeme.St.Clair_at_hds.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

To: dbi-users@perl.org
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:37:55 -0800

Thanks to the various responders. I did issue a newbie alert, and I have to
say some of the responses are (way) over my head. 8-(

"Install DBD::Oracle": yes, but how? It seemed to me that simply placing
the CPAN Oracle.pm source in the DBD folder would be a good start, then I
would simply add more bits and pieces till it all worked (ha). Am I
supposed to be doing something with 'setup.exe's or 'make's? (I don't have
a Windows C compiler, and I certainly don't have enough C expertise to start
down the road of building from scratch.)

***

On my personal XP machine, I do have an AS Perl 5.8 plus Apache 2.0.52, but
haven't yet made the two products work together.

On this company XP m/c, I have the pre-built Apache + Perl from
perl.apache.org, which I think is a little back level. Even so, as it's
only a skeleton test environment inside a VPN, I'd prefer to make this m/c
work, rather than xfer everything to the personal m/c and start over. All I
want is for this m/c to be able to issue:-

 $dbh = DBI->connect(q{dbi:Oracle:}, $uid, $pw)
    or die qq{Unable to connect to $flubdub : $DBI::errstr\n};

and establish a rational dialogue with $flubdub. (Honest, the variables are
all filled in correctly, as I didn't write that bit...)

In hopes, tx, G.