Using Oracle in C:/oracle/ora92 DEFINE _SQLPLUS_RELEASE = "902000100" (CHAR) Oracle version 9.2.0.1 (9.2) Found oci directory Using OCI directory 'oci' Found oci/lib/MSVC/oramts.lib library Unable to find required Oracle OCI files for the build. Please check that you have your OCI installed in your oracle home (C:/oracle/ora92) directory and that it has the following files (and probably more): C:/oracle/ora92\oci\include\oratypes.h C:/oracle/ora92\oci\lib\MSVC\.lib Please install OCI or send comments back to dbi-users@perl.org if you have an OCI directory other than oci. Alternatively, if you're using ActiveState perl on Windows try ppm install ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.3/DBI.ppd ppm install ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI/5.8.3/DBD-Oracle.ppd at C:\Perl\lib\DBD-Oracle-1.18\Makefile.PL line 258.