if you open the README.win32 that is in the tar you will find a good tutorial on how to do it manually. You basically have to do alot of downloading and installing of C++, .net nmake.exe and then do the install yourself. cheers John Scoles > Hi all, > I am using Active Perl5.8.8 (build 820) and Oracle client( 9i). > I have got DBI package already installed.If I want to install > DBD-Oracle,what is the process I need to follow. > > I tried using PPM>ppm install DBD-Oracle.Since I have firewall > settings,I could not connect to ppm.activestate.com. > I have copy and pasted oracle.pm under DBD folder,the error > message > is.. > Can't locate loadable object for module DBD::Oracle in @INC (@INC > contains: > C:/P > erl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .) at c2o.pl line 3 > Compilation failed in require at c2o.pl line 3. > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at c2o.pl line 3. > > I have also downloaded DBD-Oracle-1.20.tar.gz from CPAN. > > Can anyone help me how to install DBD-Oracle. > Thanks in advance, > Nirmala. >Thread Previous