You will have to update DBI and DBD::Oracle from ActiveState. The only
problem I see is the version of DBD::Oracle 1.17 will only work for a
limited numer of Oracle clients ( Instantclient 10.2.0.1 and I think 10XE.)
and windos OSes.
You will have to download that client from Oracle and use it or you will
have to follow the instrunctions in the README.win32.txt
http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/README.win32.txt to compile it
yourselft. I suggest you use the latest trunk version of the code
and you can get it here
http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbd-oracle/trunk/DBD-Oracle-1.18-RC3.zip
as we are close to releaseing a new version of DBD::Oracle
Cheers
John Scoles
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rohit V Bhute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <dbi-users@perl.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2006 12:39 PM
Subject: DBD-Oracle 1.17 gives "install_driver(Oracle) failed"
I was using Perl 5.6.x (ActiveState Windows port) to connect to Oracle 9i.
The modules used then were DBI 1.48 and DBD-Oracle 1.16. I have now
upgraded to Perl 5.8.8 with DBI 1.50 and DBD-Oracle 1.17. The upgrade was
necessitated by the WWW::Babelfish module. Now while I'm able to use
Babelfish properly, my Perl scripts are not able to connect to the Oracle
database. The message send to the browser is as follows:
<cut>
install_driver(Oracle) failed: Can't load
'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/DBD/Oracle/Oracle.dll' for module DBD::Oracle:
load_file:The specified module could not be found at
C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
at (eval 19) line 3
Compilation failed in require at (eval 19) line 3.
Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected
at C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Apache2/cgi-bin/iLCLP/iLP_Lgn.pl line
270
</cut>
While this is a frequent problem as seen by Google results, solutions are
rare. Any hints would be welcome.
TIA.
--
Rohit V. Bhute
http://blog.rvbhute.org
