Re: can not install latest DBI developer release with cpan on Win32

Steffen Winkler wrote:
> The installation is ok now:
> - ActivePerl-5.12.1.1201-MSWin32-x86-292674.msi installed
> - run cpan install TIMB/DBI-1.611_93.tar.gz
> CPAN output:
> 
> It looks like you don't have a C compiler and make utility installed.  Trying
> to install dmake and the MinGW gcc compiler using the Perl Package Manager.
> This may take a a few minutes...
> 
> Downloading MinGW-5.1.4.1...done
> Downloading dmake-4.11.20080107...done
> Unpacking MinGW-5.1.4.1...done
> Unpacking dmake-4.11.20080107...done
> Generating HTML for MinGW-5.1.4.1...done
> Generating HTML for dmake-4.11.20080107...done
> Updating files in site area...done
> 1070 files installed
> 
> Please use the `dmake` program to run commands from a Makefile!
> 
> Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
> CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.22)
> CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v5.834)
> CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9721)
> Fetching with LWP:
> http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
> CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.33)
> Going to read 'D:\Perl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz'
> CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.027)
> ............................................................................DONE
> 
> .
> .
> .
> and then a lot of output that ends with
> .
> .
> .
> 
> t/zvxnp_50dbm_simple.t ..... ok
> t/zvxnp_51dbm_file.t ....... ok
> t/zvxnp_52dbm_complex.t .... skipped: Not running with SQL::Statement
> t/zvxnp_85gofer.t .......... ok
> All tests successful.
> Files=166, Tests=6188, 70 wallclock secs ( 1.33 usr +  0.24 sys =  1.56 CPU)
> Result: PASS
> D:\Perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iblib\lib" "-Iblib\arch" test.pl
> test.pl
> DBI test application $Revision: 12537 $
> Switch: DBI 1.612 by Tim Bunce, 1.612
> Available Drivers: CSV, DBM, ExampleP, File, Gofer, ODBC, Oracle, Proxy, SQLite,
>  Sponge
> dbi:ExampleP:: testing 3 sets of 20 connections:
> Connecting... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> Disconnecting...
> Connecting... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> Disconnecting...
> Connecting... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
> Disconnecting...
> connect 20 and disconnect them, 3 times: 0.0000s / 60 = 0.0000s
> Testing handle creation speed...
> Set up gcc environment - 3.4.5 (mingw-vista special r3)
> 40000 NullP sth/s perl 5.012001 MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (gcc 3.4.5 -O2) 0.00002
> 5s
> 
> test.pl done
>   TIMB/DBI-1.611_93.tar.gz
>   D:\Perl\site\bin\dmake.exe test -- OK
> Running make install
> Prepending D:\Perl\cpan\build\DBI-1.611_93-ywTvvv/blib/arch D:\Perl\cpan\build\D
> BI-1.611_93-ywTvvv/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'install'
> Files found in blib\arch: installing files in blib\lib into architecture depende
> nt library tree
> Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\DBI\DBI.dll
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\DBM.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\File.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\Gofer.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\Proxy.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\Sponge.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\File\Developers.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\File\Roadmap.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\Gofer\Policy\Base.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\Gofer\Transport\Base.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\Gofer\Transport\null.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\Gofer\Transport\pipeone.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBD\Gofer\Transport\stream.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\DBD.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\Profile.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\ProfileData.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\ProfileDumper.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\ProxyServer.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\DBD\SqlEngine.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\Gofer\Execute.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\Gofer\Serializer\DataDumper.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\Gofer\Serializer\Storable.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\Gofer\Transport\Base.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\Gofer\Transport\pipeone.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\Gofer\Transport\stream.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\ProfileDumper\Apache.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\DBI\SQL\Nano.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\bin\dbiprof.html
> Installing D:\Perl\html\bin\dbiproxy.html
> Appending installation info to D:\Perl\lib/perllocal.pod
>   TIMB/DBI-1.611_93.tar.gz
>   D:\Perl\site\bin\dmake.exe install  -- OK
> 
> ***
> 
> Thank you for help and activating me to try more.
> 
> Regards Steffen.

I am glad you are up and running again. I can only think you had some
issue with your Config.pm was broken in some way.

Martin
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Martin J. Evans
Easysoft Limited
http://www.easysoft.com