I have been poring over various web sites and postings trying to figure out a reliable, simple approach to setting up a perl/dbi/dbd environment in which I can connect to sybase, oracle, ms sqlserver, and udb.
Some considerations are: 1. Minimal impact to the target environment. By this I mean that I want to minimize the number of libraries, runtime environments that I need to install if I want to run a perl program on one of my client's machines. 2. How to obtain/build compatible perl, dbi, and dbd. I would like to avoid complexity in this area as I have only basic C skills and I am not a windows programmer. 3. All other things being equal, I prefer to use perl 5.8 rather than 5.6. As I understand it, I have choices of: --building under cygwin, which then requires me to run under cygwin. --downloading activeperl, which then requires that I install MS C runtime libraries. --build under MinGW. I'm unsure of what the runtime dependecies would be here. Your advice on the best approach would be appreciated. regards, David
