Re: DBD::mysql for Windows XP Professional

Andy,

Try install DBI first. I wrestled with installing this on my Windows XP
machine, and had trouble initially, although I don't recall seeing the exact
error message you had. I even downloaded the source code, fiddled with MAKE
file and include header file, without success.

I then uninstalled ActiveState Perl, and put strawberry Perl on it, same
error results. Finally, I did the DBI install, and DBD install was
successful. I suspect had I done the same thing under ActiveState, it would
have succeedded as well.

So try DBI first and see what happens.

Haidong "Alex" Ji
http://www.HaidongJi.com/tech

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Wm Mussatto <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, February 25, 2009 12:38, Andy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am running Perl  (please see result of "perl -v" at the end of this
> > e-mail).
> try install DBD-mysql seemed to work for me.  The key is the '::' is
> replaced by '-' when you do the stuff under ppm
> >
> > I am using the following version of MySQL:
> >
> > Server version: 5.1.31-community MySQL Community Server (GPL)
> >
> >
> >
> > I would like to be able to connect to the database from a perl script.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have checked both the CPAN website and the ActiveState perl website,
> and
> > both lead me into the same difficulties, namely:
> >
> >
> >
> > c:\test>
> >
> > c:\test> set http_proxy=http://myproxy.com:8080/
> >
> >
> >
> > c:\test>
> >
> > c:\test> ppm install DBD::mysql
> >
> > ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provides DBD::mysql
> >
> >
> >
> > c:\test> ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/DBD-mysql.ppd
> >
> > ppm install failed: 500 read failed: Unknown error
> >
> >
> >
> > Can you please tell me where to find the needed module and how to install
> > it?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks very much.
> >
> > Andy Nicastro
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > c:\test> perl -v
> >
> >
> >
> > This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
> >
> > (with 5 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)
> >
> >
> >
> > Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall
> >
> >
> >
> > Binary build 1004 [287188] provided by ActiveState
> > http://www.ActiveState.com
> >
> > Built Sep  3 2008 13:16:37
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