I'm running Strawberry Perl 5.32.0 on an Windows 10 machine and trying to install the DBD::Sybase module. Sybase ASE 16 libraries and headers are installed and working fine with other projects.

I receive the following error messages from cpan:

Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -llibct.lib
Warning (mostly harmless): No library found for -llibcs.lib
...

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Since about Sybase 16 the libraries are named libsybct.lib, libsybcs.lib, ...

I also receive a lot of linking error messages from cpan like:

dbdimp.o:dbdimp.c:(.text+0x10b4): undefined reference to `ct_config'

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Therefore, the warnings above are most likely not harmless at all.

I had the same problems installing DBD::Sybase on an older Windows 7 machine 2 years ago after upgrading Sybase to version 16, but no problems with earlier Sybase versions.

Makefile.PL fails detecting the Sybase version in getLibVersion and tries the wrong libraries therefore. I changed the content of getLibVersion to return 16;, which is the correct version. After perl Makefile.PL and gmake I get Makefile:992: *** target file 'Makefile' has both : and :: entries. Stop. At line 992 there is $(FIRST_MAKEFILE) : Makefile.PL $(CONFIGDEP).

How can I solve this problem?

In reply to Installation of DBD::Sybase with Strawberry Perl by Anonymous Monk

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