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

Hi,

I am using Windows XP with ActivePerl v5.8.8 and DBI 1.54. I am unable to configure DBD::Informix, keep getting the error

Testing whether your Informix test environment will work... IBM Informix CSDK Version 2.90, IBM Informix-ESQL Version 2.90.TC6 esql: error -55926: Unable to spawn the compiler. Failed to compile esqltest.ec to esqltest.obj

I have tried setting all the variable mentioned in the readme, but to no avail. I have MinCG and nmake15 installed.

Any help will be much appreciated.. Thanks, Goofy

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Re: Help configuring DBD::Informix
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 01, 2007 at 21:02 UTC
    Update: it's MinGW... please excuse the typo.
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Re: Help configuring DBD::Informix
by aufflick (Deacon) on Apr 02, 2007 at 22:33 UTC
    Hi Goofy,

    In the distant past I once successfully compiled DBD::Informix on Unix. The test it seems to be doing is trying to compile an "embedded SQL" file which means C language code with Informix SQL embedded in it. If you have all the Informix SDK tools installed that should work, but under Cygwin you might have some trouble.

    You will have more success on a Linux/Unix box with Informix if you have one available. You will probably also have more success using regular Windows Perl (Activestate) since the Informix SDK for windows will be targetted at windows and not Cygwin (which has important library linking differences).

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      Hi. You could also check out www.iiug.org. This is the International Informix Users Group and there are a pile of Informix/Perl users who could help there. Cheers Trev
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        Thank you so much for your responses ;D Will keep trying... I'll post my results here if i run into any good luck. cheers, Goofy
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