installing DBI.pm on ActivePerl

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Platform Win2000 Server.
I have "ActivePerl-5.6.0.623-MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" and "mysql-3.23.32-win".
In order to make these to work together i need to install DBI-1.14. (Perl DBI module.) and Msql-Mysql-modules-1.2215.(Perl DBD module to access mSQL and MySQL databases.)

As I understand DBI.pm has to be installed before mySQL.pm. I run "Perl MakeFile.pl" in comandline and it makes "makeFile" which has to be run with "dmake.exe".
I have downloaded "dmake.exe" and when I run "dmake MakeFile" it gives this message:
dmake.exe: makefile: line 895: Error -- Expecting macro or rule defn, found neither
and the line 895 is at the buttom of MakeFile:
# --- MakeMaker pm_to_blib section:
....
....
$(PM_TO_BLIB)
<<
@$(TOUCH) $@

I really don't know how to put these 2 modules in.
Can anyone help me?

I appreciate any suggestion
Regards
Ciamak

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Re: installing DBI.pm on ActivePerl by dws (Chancellor) on Feb 21, 2001 at 01:41 UTC
`c:\> ppm install dbi` should do the trick. ActiveState uses the Perl Package Manager (PPM) for installs. See their online documentation for details.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: installing DBI.pm on ActivePerl by arturo (Vicar) on Feb 21, 2001 at 01:42 UTC
You can avoid a lot of the sorts of headaches you're getting by using the `PPM` tool. Read up on it in the docs that came with your Perl distribution. Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor	[reply] [d/l]
Re: installing DBI.pm on ActivePerl by Caillte (Friar) on Feb 21, 2001 at 16:41 UTC
I have yet to find a version of make for dos that likes the standard perl makefiles. Generally the best and only wy to install code is via a package manager. In dos you have two options: ppm install dbi perl -MCPAN -e shell Ad then typing 'install DBI'. With this second version you will find you will probably have to configure the CPAN interface first. `$japh->{'Caillte'} = $me;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: installing DBI.pm on ActivePerl by rrwo (Friar) on Feb 22, 2001 at 03:15 UTC
Try using the nmake tool from Microsoft. The ActiveState documentation on PPM should tell you where you can get it, but try ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/MSLFILES/nmake15.exe.	[reply]