Installing Perl Modules on oracle 10g windows version
458840Oct 6 2005 — edited Oct 18 2005We have oracle 10g installed on a windows 2003 server. We have been using the perl that comes with oracle 10g to talk to the database. And it works fine. However I need to install some more perl modules (most notably DBD::Mysql) and I have run into a brick wall.
Using perl -MCPAN -e shell results in having problems after the module is fetched. It has no way to decompress the module and I assume after that it will run into problems with no c compiler being installed.
So I installed active state perl and updated all paths to point to it. I ran ppm and installed DBI and DBD::Oracle and ran a test perl script only to have connection problems. It appears as if the active state perl module for oracle is broken.
So I am looking for a way to get a perl envirionment on a windows server 2003 that has both DBD:Oracle and DBD:Mysql working properly. Any suggestions? I would rather fix the perl that shipped with oracle 10g but I dont know how. Is there a place do download precompiled cpan modules for the version of perl that shipped with oracle 10g?