Thanks for the answers all.
I am trying to compile on Windows Server 2008 R2. No Linux, no sudo, no cat, no bash or any other Linux/Unix commands/shells.

And yes, I have administrative rights on that server and I am using the Administrator command prompt.

I overwrote the existing Perl installation with Strawberry 5.20 to have a current release. But it doesn't have a compiled DBD-Oracle either. It would be weird if it did. Because... how would some other guy know where my Oracle client has been installed?

I installed .net 1.1 and all the other stuff from the links above. After downloading some libraries from the internet or copying them from the server (eg OCI.dll) to the Perl/bin directory I now seem to be having a compiled Oracle.dll file. But... 
install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load 'C:/xampp/perl/site/lib/auto
+/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll' for module DBD::Oracle: load_file:%1 is not a
+ valid Win32 application at C:/xampp/perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 190.
 at (eval 8) line 3.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 8) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expecte
+d
 at C:/xampp/libs/DB.pm line 34.

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Looks like the file is corrupt... dmake test failed as well. nmake doesn't work because I'm on Windows x64 and there's no x64 nmake unless you install Visual Studio.
The file C:/xampp/perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll does exist. xampp Perl (and my installed Strawberry Perl) are 32bit anyway.

In reply to Re^3: DBD-Oracle-1.74 installation fails by Digioso
in thread DBD-Oracle-1.74 installation fails by Digioso

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