On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 18:53, Jeff Zucker wrote: > Michael Peppler wrote: > > 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. > :-)
Right - I guess I should have been more precise... > > 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. Indeed - DBD::Sybase certainly builds and runs with no particular 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. One would think that modules would simply fail to load if the required dlls were missing... Michael -- Michael Peppler Data Migrations, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peppler.org/ Sybase T-SQL/OpenClient/OpenServer/C/Perl developer available for short or long term contract positions - http://www.peppler.org/resume.html
