[rochester-pm-list] Anyone with experience adding DBI/DBD to ActiveState Perl?

[Alex Macur]

Thanks for the hint Brian.

Being the UNIX bigot that I am I forgot about evil .DLLs. (of course I've
NEVER had a problem due to LD_LIBRARY_PATH being wrong ;-)

I'll look into the ActiveState Perl Package Manager. 

My original post was going to be would it be easier to just install FreeBSD
or Linux instead of trying to set up a perl development environment under
NT. 

oraperl.pl is ancient. Oraperl.pm emulates the old oraperl API but uses the
current DBI/DBD technology for database connectivity. If you happen to be
unfortunate enough to inherit a large amount of code that uses the old
Oraperl API (IMHO) using oraperl.pm beats doing a major rewrite to the
DBI/DBD API.

Alex


-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Mathis [mailto:bmathis at directedge.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 11:59
To: rochester-pm-list at happyfunball.pm.org
Subject: Re: [rochester-pm-list] Anyone with experience adding DBI/DBD
to ActiveState Perl?


On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Alex Macur wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> With my SPARCstation stuck at MD Consult world headquarters in St. Louis
> for a tune-up for at least another week or so I'm trying to set up a
> perl development environment on one of my NT (4.0SP5) boxes as an interim
> solution

Install Linux :).  Or OpenBSD...


> Xemacs installed ok so I now have a real editor. The ActiveState 522
> perl installed OK and I can do the non-database stuff I need to.
> 
> I need to add database connectivity (DBI/DBD, specifically Oracle) and I
> am wondering it will become a major time sync to try to add it to the
> perl binary you can download from Active State
> 
> A quick test of trying to install something simple like Time::HiRes
> using -M CPAN failed under ActiveState PERL on my NT box so I think this
> does not bode for an easy install.

AFAIK, You do not need to use CPAN to get Perl modules.  Activestate comes
with a Perl Package Manager.  You should be using that to DL Packages from
Activestate's web site.  It's probably in the docs somewhere.
 
> I'm wondering if anyone has any experience adding packages like
> DBI/DBD/Oraperl that require relinking perl to ActiveState Perl. Is it a
> major headache (i.e. I need to download and install lots of gnu stuff
> and/or purchase visual C and it turns into a multi-day project)?


You haven't needed to relink the perl binary in quite a while.
Everything is a dynamic library now, pretty much.  DBI/DBD
should be ready to DL from Activestate's site, and oraperl is so
hopelessly out of date that you should've stopped using it a few years
ago.  It's functionality has been replaced with DBD/DBI.

 
> Does anyone have experience with the CD-ROM distribution
> (http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl/CDFAQ.htm)? I am wondering if
> purchasing it allow me to jump to resuming my perl programming instead
> of spending a lot of time trying to build a NT version of perl with the
> packages I need.
> 
> Thanks
> Alex


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