Re^2: Need help in Perl and postgreSQL instalation on Win32 to work together

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Re^3: Need help in Perl and postgreSQL instalation on Win32 to work together by ghenry (Vicar) on Jun 14, 2005 at 10:38 UTC
Try DBD-PgPP, it's a bit old though, so I don't know how well it will play with PG 8.0+ `install DBD-PgPP` Walking the road to enlightenment... I found a penguin and a camel on the way..... Fancy a yourname@perl.me.uk? Just ask!!!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Need help in Perl and postgreSQL instalation on Win32 to work together by punkish (Priest) on Jun 14, 2005 at 11:46 UTC
You are going about it the wrong way, esp. on Windows. Some Perl modules are pure-perl, and like the perl scripts you might write, they are just plain text. Installing them is just a matter of copying them into the correct directories, easily achieved by `perl Makefile.PL make sudo make install` [download] Other modules, however, have C/C++ code in them, and need to be compiled. Since most all Win boxes do not have a compiler, you need to download pre-compiled versions. Use ppm, your perl package manager (Win equivalent of cpan), install modules on Windows. Now, ActiveState's ppm point's to ActiveState's ppm repositories, which do not have all the modules compiled and ready. You might have to hunt down specific ones (Randy Kobes archive at theory.uwinnipeg.edu seems to have most). Then you have to point your ppm to that repository. Read the ppm help. -- when small people start casting long shadows, it is time to go to bed	[reply] [d/l]