Seeking advice on DBI,DBD on Windows for multiple RDBMS
Seeking advice on DBI,DBD on Windows for multiple RDBMS
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
Re: Seeking advice on DBI,DBD on Windows for multiple RDBMS
Quoting David Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: As I understand it, I have choices of: --building under cygwin, which then requires me to run under cygwin. Cygwin also tends to be a bit slow. That may or may not matter in your target environment. On the other hand, it gets you the closest to a UNIX environment with most shells and tools being readily available. --downloading activeperl, which then requires that I install MS C runtime libraries. You won't need MSC runtime libraries, but you might need MS VC if you want to build any modules you can't find in PPD form. You can generally find PPDs from ActiveState or third parties though. --build under MinGW. I'm unsure of what the runtime dependecies would be here. It's been too long since I played with MinGW, so I can't really say anything about it. -- Mac :})
Re: Seeking advice on DBI,DBD on Windows for multiple RDBMS
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