[pgh-pm] Perl DBI

[Andy Grundman]

Weber, Larry A wrote:

> I was running ActiveState Perl version 5.6, Win98.  I had written a number
> of DBI scripts that I tested and ran great with MySQL.  I upgraded to Perl
> 5.8 and now none of the DBI scripts run.  I get a rather lengthly error
> message that I find useless:
> 
> Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DBI/DBI.dll' for module DBI: load_file:One
> of the library files needed to run this application cannot be found at
> C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
> at C:/perl/site/lib/DBI.pm line 236
> BEGIN failed==compliation aborted at C:/Perl/site/lib/DBI.pm line 236.
> Compilation failed in required at gridwork.pl line 11.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at gridwork.pl line 11.
> 
> gridwork.pl is my script and line 11 is "use DBI;"
> 
> Any idea where I should start looking for my problem?

My guess is when you upgraded it lost all of your old modules for some 
reason.  You probably just need to install DBI and DBD::mysql again 
using ppm.

-Andy