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slugger415 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello esteemed Monks, I'm installing the DBD::DB2 module on Windows 10 with Strawberry Perl v5.28.1 using cpan's install DBD::DB2 and getting a lot of strange "did you mean..." errors, e.g.:

In file included from C:/PROGRA~1/IBM/SQLLIB/include/sqlcli.h:987:0, from Constants.xs:16: C:/PROGRA~1/IBM/SQLLIB/include/sqlext.h:1748:5: error: unknown type na +me '__in_ecount'; did you mean 'SAL__in_ecount'? __in_ecount(cchConnStrIn) ^~~~~~~~~~~ SAL__in_ecount C:/PROGRA~1/IBM/SQLLIB/include/sqlext.h:1751:5: error: unknown type na +me '__out_ecount_opt'; did you mean 'SAL__out_ecount_opt'? __out_ecount_opt(cchConnStrOutMax) ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SAL__out_ecount_opt C:/PROGRA~1/IBM/SQLLIB/include/sqlext.h:1754:5: error: unknown type na +me '__out_opt'; did you mean '_Out_opt_'? __out_opt ^~~~~~~~~

Any clue what's going on here? Thanks as always for your advice and patience.

p.s. don't know if this is any kind of clue, but when I start the cpan shell I get this:

Unable to get Terminal Size. The Win32 GetConsoleScreenBufferInfo call + didn't work. The COLUMNS and LINES environment variables didn't work +. at C:\Strawberry\perl\vendor\lib/Term/ReadLine/readline.pm line 410 +. cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v2.20) Enter 'h' for help. cpan>