Not that I can answer your question, as I do not use Windows, but I had to update some Oracle applications recently to be able to use 12.2 and up.

I noticed that the Oracle 11 client stuff works fine with Oracle 12.1 database server, but not with 12.2. I made the jump to Oracle Instant Client 18.3 and 19.3, and both work fine with the most recent stable DBI and DBD::Oracle in my environment (Linux, DBI-1.642, DBD::Oracle-1.80, perl-5.28.2)