sybperl: connectivity problem with sybase15

ggolub1 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all I have installed sybperl 1.08 with activeperl. I ran perl makefile.pl. Got some messages about libraries not found. When I try to run script, I get:

install_driver(Sybase) failed: Can't locate DBD/Sybase.pm in @INC (@IN
+C contains
: C:\mk\Etc C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .) at (eval 4) line 3.
Perhaps the DBD::Sybase perl module hasn't been fully installed,
or perhaps the capitalisation of 'Sybase' isn't right.
Available drivers: CSV, DBM, ExampleP, File, Gofer, ODBC, Oracle, Prox
+y, SQLite,
 Sponge.
 at C:\p_sc\p1.pl line 9
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Can somebody recommend what should I do next. I browsed web for hours - could not find an answer. Thank you, Gene.

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Re: sybperl: connectivity problem with sybase15 by moritz (Cardinal) on Jul 31, 2008 at 07:35 UTC
Well, it tells you in the error message what's wrong: DBD::Sybase isn't installed. So go ahead and install it.	[reply]
Re^2: sybperl: connectivity problem with sybase15 by derby (Abbot) on Jul 31, 2008 at 12:01 UTC
That's definitely the error message for a missing DBD::Sybase but the OP's first sentence was I have installed sybperl 1.08 with activeperl. I'm not much on activeperl but I'm guessing the OP either has two versions of perl installed or the install did not go well. -derby Doh! Joost is right ... (I should have remembered that).	[reply]
Re^3: sybperl: connectivity problem with sybase15 by Joost (Canon) on Jul 31, 2008 at 12:07 UTC
DBD::Sybase is not part of sybperl. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply]
Re: sybperl: connectivity problem with sybase15 by mpeppler (Vicar) on Jul 31, 2008 at 12:08 UTC
You're trying to install DBD::Sybase, not sybperl (sybperl 1.08 would be really old... :-) You say "Got some messages about libraries not found..." That may be a rather important clue about the problem - please post the actual error messages that you got. Michael	[reply]


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