Just to clearify what has been said and give you a little more to work with. Go to www.activestate.com and download MSI.exe and active perl. MSI is the M$ installer. After you download these files run the MSI.exe (downloadable at activestate)and you will have to restart your pc. Then you can double click on the activestate file it will end in .msi. You will again have to restart your pc. Next open a command window and run the command ppm from here you can use
search DBI or you can just run
install DBI
DBI is your focal point for database access. This contains ADO by default. Then to add Oracle run
install DBD::Oracle
This will install the database driver for Oracle.
Happy Coding
--BigJoe
Learn patience, you must.
Young PerlMonk, craves Not these things.
Use the source Luke. | [reply]
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They also provide an already compiled DBD::Oracle module
that you can install with ppm. No compiler needed. | [reply] |
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In the node How about a you will find links to several Perl distributions.
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I haven't used it yet, but you could try IndigoPerl which comes bundled with Apache Webserver - could be a handy bundle if you are using Perl for CGI. It also has a GUI Package Manager for installing modules. I don't know if it is as nice as the VPM in the O'Reilly Perl Resource Kit.
Has anyone used this build of Perl? | [reply] |
