in reply to Re^3: issue with dbd-oracle installation on win32
in thread issue with dbd-oracle installation on win32

well, I have the oracle 10.2.03 client installed on the machine. (that's what I meant by , oracle client is installed)
Now I am able to install the DBD::ORACLE module. Thanks for the help. But I have new set of problems.
I am trying to run the perl script and it is throwing new set of errors.(given below) 

"The procedure entry point Perl_Glookhook_ptr could not be located in 
+the dynamic link library perl58.dll"

install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/O
+racle/Oracle.dll' for module DBD::Oracle: load_file:The specified pro
+cedure could not be found at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
 at (eval 3) line 3
Compilation failed in require at (eval 3) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expecte
+d  at db_access_pr.prl line 2

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I have added Oracle's 10.0.2 bin dir to PATH variable in the machine . Also I have setup ORACLE_HOME environment variable to point to this bin directory.

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Re^5: issue with dbd-oracle installation on win32
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jan 30, 2009 at 01:21 UTC
    The procedure entry point Perl_Glookhook_ptr could not be located in the dynamic link library perl58.dll

    This type of error can arise if the ppm package was built using a version of perl-5.8 other than 5.8.0 (in which case it's not your fault). However, none of my perl58.dll's export that symbol, so I'm unable to verify that's the problem here.

    Where did you get this ppm package ? As an alternative, try firstly: 
    ppm remove DBD-Oracle

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    followed by: 
    ppm install http://trouchelle.com/ppm/DBD-Oracle.ppd

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    which should give you version 1.19.

    Cheers,
    Rob
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      Hi Rob,
      Thank you very much. Perl is working fine with DBD-Oracle version 1.19. I had downloaded the 1.17 version from activestate.
      I downloaded zip and ppd file from trouchelle.com and installed it. Everything is working fine.
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Re^5: issue with dbd-oracle installation on win32
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 30, 2009 at 12:46 UTC
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