Well, tried PPM area sync. Unfortunately it still didn't work after this. When I run this from the command prompt by typing in perl oracle_test.cgi I get a pop-up window that says, "This application has failed to start because OCI.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem." After clicking OK it spits out the html for the error message I shared earlier. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be able to find that file because I have the following line at the top of my code $ENV{NLS_NCHAR}="UTF8"; $ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH} = "$ORACLE_LIB:$ENV{LD_LIBRARY_PATH}"; $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = "$ORACLE_HOME"; where $ORACLE_HOME and $ORACLE_LIB define the paths to my Oracle directory. I read somewhere that you have to compile DBD-Oracle for a specific Oracle Client target. I saw this http://search.cpan.org/src/PYTHIAN/DBD-Oracle-1.22/README.win32.txt Is DBD-Oracle from ActiveState and trouchelle compiled for Oracle Instant Client 11.1.0.6.0 ? I am using Oracle Client 10.1.0g. Could this be my problem? Maybe I should try downloading a different version of Oracle Client? Or is there a way to tell what version a particular DBD-Oracle was compiled for?

In reply to Re^4: Having trouble trying to use DBD::Oracle with ActivePerl 5.8.8... by Anonymous Monk
in thread Having trouble trying to use DBD::Oracle with ActivePerl 5.8.8... by willjones

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