DBD-Oracle for ActiveState Perl 5.8

hagen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

My fellow Monks

SuperSearch has turned up 250327 as the latest and not very satisfying information about DBD-Oracle for Win32 Perl 5.8

Has there been any advance on this?

I've taken a look at brother crazyinsomniac's site at http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org and he has compiled modules for Sybase and others - but no Oracle DBD - should I make a request to him to compile one, or have other Monks been able to overcome the problem in another manner?

Thanks for any advice

hagen

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Re: DBD-Oracle for ActiveState Perl 5.8 by Anonymous Monk on Sep 23, 2003 at 00:36 UTC
Three possible solutions: Jeff Urlwin's ppm repository ftp://ftp.esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI Randy Kobe's ppm repository http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/ Just use DBD::ODBC instead	[reply]
Re: Re: DBD-Oracle for ActiveState Perl 5.8 by hagen (Friar) on Sep 23, 2003 at 00:54 UTC
Alllll Riiiiight!!! Thank you, AnonyMonk! - and Jeff Urlwin. I snaffled both DBD-Oracle-1.13-5.8.tar.gz and DBD-ODBC-1.06-5.8.tar.gz just to be sure. I checked out Randy Kobe's site too, but he seems to have only the ODBC driver. I had considered using ODBC, but all my (known) repositories came up blank for that too. I will now `ppm repository add Jeff ftp://esoftmatic.com/outgoing/DBI` so's not to forget. Once again, instant gratification from Perl Monks. Thanks all. hagen	[reply] [d/l]
Re: DBD-Oracle for ActiveState Perl 5.8 by Steve_p (Priest) on Sep 23, 2003 at 01:38 UTC
Another option is to download the .NET SDK. You can then install DBD::Oracle using CPAN.	[reply]
Re^2: DBD-Oracle for ActiveState Perl 5.8 by pukku (Novice) on Dec 23, 2004 at 20:57 UTC
Hi! Can you expand on this option? I have the .NET SDK, but I keep on running into errors where it can't find include files (such as windows.h), and I have to add all kinds of things to my path. I'm trying to get a more recent version of DBD::Oracle to work with ActiveState build 635 so that I can use "INSERT ... VALUES ... RETURNING" statements...	[reply]
Re^3: DBD-Oracle for ActiveState Perl 5.8 by Steve_p (Priest) on Dec 29, 2004 at 16:06 UTC
When I wrote this, I had Visual Studio installed. To work with the .NET SDK only, you also need to install the "Platform SDK". A quick Google search finds the Platform SDK at http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate/ . The Microsoft site, of course, is picky about using IE, so use it to access this site.	[reply]