[pgh-pm] Perl DBI

terry mcintyre terrymcintyre at yahoo.com
Thu Jul 1 11:15:10 CDT 2004


odds are, the new version of Perl is not looking
in the right place for the old libraries. It's 
probably not a bad idea to recompile, as a previous
poster suggested, but you can also do some tricks
to modify the search path. See 
http://faq.perl.org/perlfaq8.html



--- "Weber, Larry A" <laweber at switch.com> 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?
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