Re: information outdated...

Chris Travers wrote:
> Forgot to CC the list....

> 
> 
> The only other versions of Perl I know of are Vanilla and Strawberry
> Perl, which come with MinGW, dmake, etc.  I have never had a problem
> using CPAN for DBD::Pg on those distros with the exception of Windows
> Vista, pre SP1 (compatibility issue with the GCC).  Though I haven't
> tried to do this with DBD::Pg in a few years so there might be issues
> that I am not aware of.  Given how smooth the process was before,
> however, I doubt it.
> 
> Best Wishes,
> Chris Travers

About a year ago, Mark Dootson kindly posted the following howto on this list.
I don't know if there is an archive to link to, so I'll just copy it:

Christoph

Mark Dootson wrote:
> F.Y.I.
> 
> I tried a strawberry build with success using following steps:
> 
> One file change only needed to make in DBD::Pg source is:
> 
> Makefile.PL -
> add 'use DBI::DBD;'.
> comment out "unlink $output->{MAKEFILE};" at line 247
> 
> set required environment:
> 
> set PATH=C:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\8.3\bin;%PATH%
> set DBI_DSN=dbi:Pg:dbname=testdb
> set DBI_USER=username
> set DBI_PASS=password
> set POSTGRES_HOME=C:/PROGRA~1/PostgreSQL/8.3
> set POSTGRES_INCLUDE=C:/PROGRA~1/PostgreSQL/8.3/include
> set POSTGRES_LIB=C:/PROGRA~1/PostgreSQL/8.3/lib
> 
> 
> perl Makefile.PL
> 
> Now here's the ugly bit: edited both EXTRALIBS and LDLOADLIBS in the resulting Makefile to include 
> C:\PROGRA~1\PostgreSQL\8.3\lib\libpq.lib
> 
> then
> 
> dmake
> dmake test
> 
> all works fine.