Re: DBI, Windows and Perl56.dll error

Please if any monk has a clue or koan that leads me in correct direction I will gladly take it.

You're running 5.8 on Windows, but you also suggest that you're getting the MySQL driver from CPAN. Have you tried getting the pre-built driver from ActiveState? Assuming that you're running ActiveState Perl,

C:> ppm install dbd-mysql
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is the incantation to fetch the mysql driver from the ActiveState repository and install it.

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Re: Re: DBI, Windows and Perl56.dll error by Akira71 (Scribe) on May 15, 2003 at 17:57 UTC
Thank you for your reply. I did try this before and I have run a test of DBI to see if it works. I forgot to emntion this. First here is the output from DOS that I received when doing the above code just to try again. `C:\Perl>ppm install dbd-mysql Version 2.1026 of 'DBD-mysql' is already installed. Remove it, or use 'verify --upgrade DBD-mysql'. C:\Perl>ppm verify --upgrade DBD-mysql Package 'DBD-mysql' is up to date.` [download] This is the extremely simple PERL program I used to test CGI and DBI taken from the so far good book "MySQL and PERL for the Web." `#! /usr/bin/perl # intro2.pl - verify availability of CGI.pm and DBI modules use CGI; use DBI; $cgi = new CGI; print "The CGI object was created sauccesfully.\n"; @driver_names = DBI->available_drivers(); print "These DBI drivers are available: @driver_names\n"; exit(0);` [download] This runs just fine and dumps the output of all the drivers I am running. `C:\Apache2\perl_dev>perl intro2.pl The CGI object was created sauccesfully. These DBI drivers are available: CSV ExampleP File ODBC Oracle Proxy S +QLite mysql` [download] Hopefully this will help to clarify a little bit more. Again, thank you for all the kind help.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: DBI, Windows and Perl56.dll error by Jenda (Abbot) on May 15, 2003 at 18:22 UTC
Maybe the module is up-to-date, but most likely it's for a different version of Perl. Run `ppm remove DBD-mysql ppm install DBD-mysql` [download] BTW, how did you install it in the first place? Jenda Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. -- Rick Osborne Edit by castaway: Closed small tag in signature	[reply] [d/l]