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in reply to Re^5: Install CPAN BerkeleyDB module on Windows 7 (64 bit)
in thread Install CPAN BerkeleyDB module on Windows 7 (64 bit)

Tried that too. 'nmake' fails with:
.... .... Creating library blib\arch\auto\BerkeleyDB\BerkeleyDB.lib and objec +t blib\arc h\auto\BerkeleyDB\BerkeleyDB.exp BerkeleyDB.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __heap_exis +t BerkeleyDB.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol db_version BerkeleyDB.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol db_strerror BerkeleyDB.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol db_env_crea +te BerkeleyDB.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol db_create BerkeleyDB.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol db_sequence +_create blib\arch\auto\BerkeleyDB\BerkeleyDB.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 6 unre +solved ext ernals NMAKE : fatal error U1077: '"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual S +tudio 10.0 \VC\Bin\amd64\link.EXE"' : return code '0x460' Stop.

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Re^7: Install CPAN BerkeleyDB module on Windows 7 (64 bit)
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 09, 2012 at 01:14 UTC

    :) i don't believe it (:

    Especially the ... part

    I suggest you try building libdb yourself, and if you can manage that, try building BerkeleyDB.pm yourself , that is what I do with mingw32, it works every time