I am trying to use DBD::Oracle with ActivePerl version 5.8.8.822. I am able to run my code fine on a Linux OS, but when I run on Windows using ActivePerl I am getting the following error message...

install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll' for module DBD::Oracle: load_file:The specified module could not be found at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 229. at (eval 34) line 3
Compilation failed in require at (eval 34) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected...

I found this page here that said DBD::Oracle wasn't compatible with ActivePerl v5.8.3, and it reccommends reverting back to version 5.6.1. The latest version at the time that was written was 5.8.3. Any ideas if this is still true now or what I should do to get DBD::Oracle working with ActivePerl 5.8.8 ?

This error is happening on the connect line in my code... 
use DBI;

my $db = DBI->connect("dbi:Oracle:$DB_TNS","$DB_USER_ID","$DB_PASSWORD",  { AutoCommit => 0 });
Thanks...

In reply to Having trouble trying to use DBD::Oracle with ActivePerl 5.8.8... by willjones

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