Thanks. I'm not sure how both 5.8 and 5.10 are available. I think Perl is installed by default as part of Cygwin. I didn't get it from ActiveState.

Had a go an installing DBI manually.

Downloaded the CPAN package with get DBI.

perl Makefile.pm - no problem.
make - no problem
make test - problems:
t/80proxy...................skipped: modules required for proxy are pr +obably not installed (e.g., RPC/PlClient.pm) t/85gofer...................112/? 4 [main] perl 4580 C:\cygwin\b +in\perl.exe: *** fatal error - unable to remap C:\cygwin\lib\perl5\5. +10\i686-cygwin\auto\Data\Dumper\Dumper.dll to same address as parent( +0x860000) != 0x14E0000 4 [main] perl 4580 C:\cygwin\bin\perl.exe: *** fatal error - una +ble to remap C:\cygwin\lib\perl5\5.10\i686-cygwin\auto\Data\Dumper\Du +mper.dll to same address as parent(0x860000) != 0x14E0000 9 [main] perl 5256 child_info::sync: wait failed, pid 4580, Win3 +2 error 183 2844 [main] perl 5256 fork: child 4580 - died waiting for dll loadi +ng, errno 11 t/85gofer...................115/? 9 [main] perl 5256 child_info: +:sync: wait failed, pid 4580, Win32 error 183 2844 [main] perl 5256 fork: child 4580 - died waiting for dll loadi +ng, errno 11 # Failed test 'pipeone: DBD::Gofer::db do failed: DBD::Gofer transmi +t_request timed-out after 60 seconds [for Statement "UPDATE fruit SET dVal='apples' WHERE dVal='oranges'"] at t/85gofer.t line 173. # ' # at t/85gofer.t line 104. t/85gofer...................160/? # Looks like you failed 1 test of 21 +9.
Any additional suggestions gratefully recieved, I'm no expert when it comes to CPAN, let alone what to do when it appears there are two versions of Perl running locally!

Thanks in advance.

In reply to Re^2: Can't locate DBI.pm @INC (Cygwin + MySQL) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Can't locate DBI.pm @INC (Cygwin + MySQL) by w0rf

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