Hi, I'm trying to install DBD::Oracle on cygwin. I am only a beginner with perl, and the whole cpan/make/build thing is entirely new to me also. So to the problem. in cpan I run: cpan[2]> install DBD::Oracle and a load of guff is spewed out. All is well until the following lines:

t/00versions.t ................ Can't load '/home/J/.cpan/build/DBD-Or
+acle-1.74-nSxxhX/blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll' for module DBD
+::Oracle: Exec format error at /usr/
lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/DynaLoader.pm line 190.
 at t/00versions.t line 10.
Compilation failed in require at t/00versions.t line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/00versions.t line 10.
# Looks like your test exited with 8 before it could output anything.
t/00versions.t ................ Dubious, test returned 8 (wstat 2048, 
+0x800)
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Now, I don't really know what I'm doing here because it's all new to me, but I've had a go and so far all I can say is that /home/J/.cpan/build/DBD-Oracle-1.74-nSxxhX/blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll does exist:

J-PC:J >ls -l /home/J/.cpan/build/DBD-Oracle-1.74-nSxxhX/blib/arch/aut
+o/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll
-rwxr-xr-x 1 J None 721811 May 26 15:07 /home/J/.cpan/build/DBD-Oracle
+-1.74-nSxxhX/blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll
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The failing code is in .cpan/build/DBD-Oracle-1.74-nSxxhX/t/00versions.t:

use DBD::Oracle qw/ ORA_OCI /;
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which is called by (or perhaps vice versa) the following code in /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/DynaLoader.pm

my $libref = dl_load_file($file, $module->dl_load_flags) or
    croak("Can't load '$file' for module $module: ".dl_error());
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So that module exists. Can anybody tell me what I can do here? By the way, I don't know what it does but I saw somebody somewhere mention ldd to check a library for links or something, so I did that:

J-PC:J >ldd /home/J/.cpan/build/DBD-Oracle-1.74-nSxxhX/blib/arch/auto/
+DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll
        ntdll.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/SysWOW64/ntdll.dll (0x779d000
+0)
        kernel32.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/kernel32.dll (0x7
+72f0000)
        KERNELBASE.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/KERNELBASE.dll 
+(0x75810000)
        ??? => ??? (0x6f640000)
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There's nothing that I can see in the cpan output that says a variable doesn't exist. Can anybody help me here? Any help is greatly appreciated as I'm totally in the dark. Thanks. ===================================================== EDIT: ===================================================== Here is some more of the cpan output, which suggests that the shared library isn't where it ought to be (although as I have said, it is where it is supposed to be, or at least, something is there):

t/000-report-versions-tiny.t .. ok
t/00versions.t ................ Can't load '/home/J/.cpan/build/DBD-Or
+acle-1.74-nSxxhX/blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll' for module DBD
+::Oracle: Exec format error at /usr/
lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/DynaLoader.pm line 190.
 at t/00versions.t line 10.
Compilation failed in require at t/00versions.t line 10.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/00versions.t line 10.
# Looks like your test exited with 8 before it could output anything.
t/00versions.t ................ Dubious, test returned 8 (wstat 2048, 
+0x800)
Failed 2/2 subtests
t/01base.t .................... 1/6
#   Failed test 'install_driver'
#   at t/01base.t line 24.
#          got: 'install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load '/home/J/.c
+pan/build/DBD-Oracle-1.74-nSxxhX/blib/arch/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll
+' for module DBD::Oracle: Exec forma
t error at /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/DynaLoader.pm
+ line 190.
#  at (eval 11) line 3.
# Compilation failed in require at (eval 11) line 3.
# Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expec
+ted
#  at t/01base.t line 21.
# '
#     expected: ''
# Failed to load Oracle extension and/or shared libraries
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 6.
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