<sigh> I have spent HOURS trying to get this stupid thing to load. </sigh>

Details: I'm on Windows 2000, using ActiveState 5.8. I used ppm3 to automagically install the DBI module. However, when I try to load DBD::Sybase, ppm3 can't find it via "search." So, mpeppler's webpage pointed to crazyinsomniac's ppm store. I downloaded crazy's 5.8 version of DBD::Sybase (tar.gz file), and had Winzip expand it into c:\temp\DBD. I pulled up tachyon's lovely A Guide to Installing Modules, installed nmake, and made it up it until the point it instructed me to do the following:

$perl Makefile.PL

I did check the extracted tar.gz files in my c:\temp\DBD directories for the Makefile.PL file, but couldn't find one. I searched my entire hard drive and found two of them. However, after opening them in Notepad, I could see that each Makefile.PL is unique.

Earlier today, I also tried to download CPAN.pm (repeatedly) so it could help me install some modules, and got so many errors about files being "bad" that I gave that up and started searching other options.

So, any ideas for this pathetic, soon-to-be-brain-dead newbie?

In reply to DBD::Sybase - I'm having trouble installing it by Lori713

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