Hi fellow monks,

I am part of a software development team developing solutions using perl. We have a huge amount of data that we will definitely need (or my boss insist on) to load it in one go, which will go over the 2GB limit on Win32 x86.

I have then installed and run my script using ActiveState Perl x64 and failed because there isn't any ppm repository for x64 ever (Shame on them)! So I will have to manually load modules that I need for the script to work. All go smoothly until I try to load DBI and DBD::ODBC. Those modules requires compilation using a C++ compiler. I have tried out downloading VC++ express to compile it and I don't seem to be able to make it work.

Now my questions are, does anyone have experience in doing this? Anywhere that you can point me to or you have actually written up some How Tos to educate your humble monk?

Wilson

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