Hi,

I have a small perl script that downloads data from an ODBC source. I'm running perl on debian 7.3 / powerpc with libdbd-odbc-perl. The system should be apt-to-date.

The ODBC driver itself seems to work fine as I can successfully connect to my datasources using isql, unfortunately the perl script fails.

I have found a small test script on the web that just checks the installed modules and this one also shows the error:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use DBI;

my @drivers = DBI->available_drivers();

die "No drivers found. \n" unless @drivers;

# list the data sources
foreach my $driver ( @drivers )
{
    print "Driver: $driver\n";
    my @dataSources = DBI->data_sources( $driver );
    foreach my $dataSource ( @dataSources )
    {
        print "\tData Source: $dataSource\n";
    }
    print "\n";
}

exit
The resulting error: 
Driver: ODBC
install_driver(ODBC) failed: Unable to get DBI state from DBI::_dbistate at 106e6d30. DBI not loaded. at /usr/lib/perl/5.14/DynaLoader.pm line 207.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 26) line 3.

 at ./dbcheck.pl line 13
Any ideas? Many thanks in advance!

In reply to perl with dbd::odbc - error "Unable to get DBI state" by wolfipa

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