If you are on a 64-bit platform, you'll be far better off--performance, memory, support--using a 64-bit build of perl, than restricting yourself to a 32-bit build on the basis of a piece of idealogically motivated FUD from someone who takes pride in declaring that he doesn't use your target platform.
Examine what is said, not who speaks -- Silence betokens consent -- Love the truth but pardon error.
"Science is about questioning the status quo. Questioning authority".
In the absence of evidence, opinion is indistinguishable from prejudice.
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I can't promise it will be easy, but it is worth a try. With Strawberry Perl you would need to run the command
perl -MCPAN -e shell
which will start the CPAN shell. After answering a series of questions you'll need to type in:
install DBI
install DBD::Oracle
and there is a good chance that it will work. If it doesn't, well, you can install Strawberry Perl in some private location first while you run the experiment. If it fails, just delete the directory. If it succeeds, you can play with it for a while before deciding that that is the direction you want to go. | [reply]
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