I'm having trouble installing DBD-Mysql on cygwin -should I forget about cygwin because it seems like so much hassle to me.
I've installed DBI on cygwin and it works - 
#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use DBI;

print "Here's a list of DBI drivers:\n";

my @available_drivers = DBI->available_drivers('quiet');
my $driver;

foreach $driver (@available_drivers)
{
   print "$driver\n";
}

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and I got ExampleP and Proxy as output.
I then untarred DBD-mysql-2.1026.tar.gz and when I tried to run perl Makefile.pl, I got "cannot exec mysql-config". I then looked at INSTALL.html and it said to run
configure --without-server
when you dont have Mysql on your machine, but I got something like this in return - "Configure" command not found. I ran both perl Makefile.pl and configure --without-server from within the directory - /home/Administrator/DBD-mysql-2.1026
So I've no idea what to do now. All I want to do is run my scripts on my PC, and allow them to connect to a mysql database which is setup and working on another machine.
What should I do
Thanks.

In reply to Cant install DBD-Mysql by Anonymous Monk

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