Hi,
I can't seem to make the DBD::Pg Postgres driver to work on ActiveState Perl 5.8.8.817 w/ Win2k
I'm using Perl at work and I can't change much of the environment: I have to make do with a Windows 2000 professional (yes, that's a pretty old OS ... but I have nothing else).
I have installed (a couple of years ago) ActiveState Perl 5.8.8.817 and I am generally satisfied with it but I can upgrade this if required.
I can't access ActiveState package repository via ppm though (firewall settings I don't control). And I can't build from C / C++ sources, so I've downloaded DBI 1.59 as well as DBD::Pg as ActiveState packages from uwinnipeg.ca and installed them both from a local (hard drive) repository using ppm.
DBI seems to be working, I can list available drivers (it lists the Postgresql driver), but when I try to do a DBI->connect my perl script causes an address violation and crashes.

Thanks for your suggestions
Sorin

In reply to DBD-Pg.dll crashes on Win2K w/ ActiveState 5.8 by scr53005

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