On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 12:41, Michael Peppler wrote:
Thanks to Jeff Urlwin there are now PPDs for DBD::Sybase
I used the instructions posted in http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=387070 (thanks Jeff!) to get the various tools under Windows (VC++, etc).
Let's not blame the wrong Jeff for this, it was my post on perlmonks. :-)
I have been told that these binaries probably depend on MSVCR71.dll
which is probably not installed by default.
AFAIK, that's only available with a purchased copy of MSVC. But it isn't totally clear to me that this is a show stopper. I was able to compile DBI and DBD::SQLite with the free tools mentioned in my perlmonks posting. Both modules passed all tests and appear to operate correctly in simple scripts. I'm assuming that was also the case with DBD::Sybase. If indeed these free tools are not sufficient to build the modules in question, then one wonders what tests would illustrate the problems.
I'm really a beginner with Win32
Me too, so apply a big YMMV to my perlmonks posting and read some of the comments on it for more information. The only post I saw that specifically reported problems was in relation to Win32::* modules. It doesn't seem too unlikely to me that Windows specific modules would require a specific .dll. Whether that applies to modules which don't make use of any Windows specific code is another question and one I'm not qualified to answer.
-- Jeff (the other one)
