Re: Reg. perl module installation

On 5/24/05, shanthi nagarajan <shanthi_bi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear Friend,
> I am shnathi Nagarajan working as a computer operator in Bioinformatics centre, Pondicherry University, India. Presently I am trying to connect perl and mysql. I have downloaded DBI-1.25.tar module and extracted into perl\lib\DBI-1.25. And also ran the makefile.pl it was creating different file with extension .t, .pm, .h, .pl. after that while running test.pl file with perl test.pl command
> The output is
> DBI test application $Revision: 11.5 $
> Cannot find blib even in D:/perl/lib/DBI-1.25/../../..
> BEGIN failed—compilation aborted at line 21.
>
> Please help me to overcome this problem. I will be grateful if u help me.
> What is the general procedure to connect perl and MySQL and how to get it through CGI (HTML)?
> Thanking you
>

1) What version of perl are you using? Execute the command perl -V and
see what it says.

2) DBI-1.25 is a very old version of the module.
See http://search.cpan.org and install the latest version of the
module before you continue your tests.

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Matthew O. Persico

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