Hi All,

I am using perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread and i tried installing the DBD-Oracle module but unable to install. Please find below the steps followed by me:

1) I first tried installing Oracle.pm using the Activestate PPM but, i got an connection error to the activestate perl module repository.

2) Then i tried changing the http_proxy, it seemed to work fine. I was able to connect to the activestate perl module repository but while downloading the DBD-Oracle.pm it has given an error "404 not found".

3) Then i tried installing the perl module following the classic unix steps i.e.,
a) downloading from CPAN.org
b) unzipping and decompressing the files into a folder.
c) perl Makefile.PL
d) make
e) make install
But the result for the above steps was some compiler issue with C. Please find below the error i got 
"*** You're using Microsoft Visual C++ compiler or similar but the LIB
+ and INCLUDE environment variables are not both set. You need to run 
+the VCVARS32.BAT batch file that was supplied with the compiler befor
+e you can use it. A copy of vcvars32.bat can typically be found in th
+e following directories under your Visual Studio install directory: V
+isual C++ 6.0: vc98\bin Visual Studio .NET: vc7\bin Find it, run it, 
+then retry this. If you think this error is not correct then just set
+ the LIB and INCLUDE environment variables to some value to disable t
+he check."

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4) Then i tried copying the DBD-Oracle.pm version 1.20 to "C:\Perl\lib\DBD\" and tried executing the my code that connects to the Oracle database and fetches some information. I got the following error: 
"install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't locate loadable object for modul
+e DBD::Oracle in @INC (@INC contains: C:\Perl\lib C:/Perl/site/lib C:
+/Perl/lib .) at (eval 4) line 3 Compilation failed in require at (eva
+l 4) line 3. Perhaps a module that DBD::Oracle requires hasn't been f
+ully installed at DB_Connect.pl line 10". Please help me regarding th
+e same.

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Thanks & Regards,
Srikant

In reply to Unable to install DBD-Oracle in Windows XP by srikantvm

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