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

I need some advice. Can anyone give me advice on running Perl 64 bit with DBD::Oracle. Does anyone out there have any experience installing and running both of these on a 64 bit Windows machine? I'm running Win Server 2003 64 bit. What's the best way to do it and what's the easiest? I'm a moderate user of Perl and don't have much internal Perl compiler experience. Where can I get Perl 64 bit, other than Active State?
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Re: advice with 64 bit perl and DBD::Oracle
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 24, 2008 at 03:42 UTC
    Where can I get Perl 64 bit, other than Active State?

    I don't think you can on Windows.
    If you install the 64-bit build of ActiveState and also install the freely available "Microsoft Platform SDK for Windows Server 2003 R2", you might be able to build DBD::Oracle for that build of perl.

    Once you've installed that SDK, you need to run C:\Platform_SDK\SetEnv.cmd /XP64 /RETAIL (the exact command depends upon where you've placed the SDK) in order to set up the environment variables so that the compiler, etc are found automatically.

    I have no idea whether that approach will be successful :-)

    Can you use a 32-bit build of perl and DBD::Oracle on your machine ? If so, that would probably be the simplest way to go.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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