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

I'm having trouble installing DBI on a server in my home directory. Makefile.PL generated the Makefile, but I cannot make this Makefile, because the system has no make. It doesn't have any gcc nor cc either, so I can't build it on my own. Am I out of luck?

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Re: Installing DBI without make
by dws (Chancellor) on Apr 08, 2001 at 00:05 UTC
    If you're on win32, the (poorly documented) way of installing DBI is via ActiveState's Perl Package Manager (PPM).   c:\> ppm install dbi or, for more info 
      c:\> ppm
  PPM interactive shell (1.1.1) - type 'help' for available commands.
  PPM> help

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    I used ActiveState Perl for about 6 months before discovering PPM by looking over someone's shoulder. I'm convinced that many people never discover it.

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(jptxs)Re: Installing DBI without make
by jptxs (Curate) on Apr 07, 2001 at 23:37 UTC
    without know the type of system it is, it's hard to be specific. I'll make the assumption it's a *nix of some kind. in that case, you should be able to find all of the materials above on the web. the real trick will be having the correct access. if you're not root, it'll be hard to install some of these (gcc in particular).

    some places to look for gcc, make etc. 

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seriousness one had as a child, at play."   --Nietzsche

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      It's a Debian Linux server, and I cannot get root. I guess it wouldn't be too hard to find x86 Linux binaries of gcc. Thanks for the links.
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(tye)Re: Installing DBI without make
by tye (Sage) on Apr 09, 2001 at 18:15 UTC
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