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

I am having a very difficult time installing the dbd-pg driver for postgresql. I am using windows home, strawberry perl 5.10 (also tried it with 5.8), postgresql 8.3. via cpan I get the error message below: ________________________________________________________ cpan> install DBD::Pg Running install for module 'DBD::Pg' Running make for T/TU/TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.2.2.tar.gz Checksum for C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\id\T\TU\TURNSTEP\DBD-Pg-2.2.2.ta r.gz ok CPAN.pm: Going to build T/TU/TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.2.2.tar.gz Configuring DBD::Pg 2.2.2 PostgreSQL version: 80300 (default port: 5432) POSTGRES_HOME: (not set) POSTGRES_INCLUDE: (not set) POSTGRES_LIB: (not set) OS: MSWin32 Use of uninitialized value in foreach loop entry at Makefile.PL line 123. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Can't locate object method "dbd_postamble" via package "DBI::DBD" at Makefile.PL line 188. Warning: No success on commandC:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL LIBS= -LC:\strawberry\c\lib INC=-IC:\strawberry\c\include TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.2.2.tar.gz C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL LIBS=-LC:\strawberry\c\lib INC=-IC :\strawberry\c\include -- NOT OK Running make test Make had some problems, won't test Running make install Make had some problems, won't install Failed during this command: TURNSTEP/DBD-Pg-2.2.2.tar.gz : writemakefile NO 'C:\strawberry\ perl\bin\perl.exe Makefile.PL LIBS=-LC:\strawberry\c\lib INC=-IC:\strawberry\c\i nclude' returned status 512 ________________________________________________________