Hi Monks, I have a Windows system with Windows Server 2008 R2, a xampp-1.8.3-3 webserver and an Oracle 11gR2 Client.
I also installed MingW, downloaded dmake and the Basic GNU Utilities.

Currently I am using MySQL for the database of my application but I want to switch to an Oracle database on a remote system. Therefore I'm trying to install the DBD::Oracle Module .

My main problem is that the server does not have any internet connectivity so I cannot use cpan to download and install it automatically.

Following the instructions step 1 (perl Makefile.PL LINKTYPE=static) works fine. Step2 (just use make or in my case dmake) also works fine. But step 3 (make perl or in make case dmake perl) fails with the below error.
I checked whether the file C:\Users\adm-janssen\Desktop\DBD-Oracle-1.74\blib\arch\auto\DBD\Oracle\extralibs.all exists or not and I can see it where it is supposed to be. So... why do I get this error? Thanks a lot. :) 
C:\Users\adm-janssen\Desktop\DBD-Oracle-1.74>dmake.exe perl
...
...
lots of output
...
...

C:\xampp\perl\lib/CORE/libperl.a `cat blib\arch\auto\DBD\Oracle/extral
+ibs.all` -
lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32
+ -lshell32
 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion
+ -lodbc32
-lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
gcc: error: `cat: No such file or directory
gcc: error: blib\arch\auto\DBD\Oracle/extralibs.all`: No such file or 
+directory
dmake:  Error code 129, while making 'perl'
dmake.exe:  Error code 255, while making 'perl'

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