Markus Zeller Blog » mysql http://www.markuszeller.com Life is just a game Sat, 31 Dec 2011 22:09:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Perl 5.8+ on Windows with mySQL http://www.markuszeller.com/perl-58-on-windows-with-mysql http://www.markuszeller.com/perl-58-on-windows-with-mysql#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 08:58:54 +0000 Markus Zeller http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=1387 Continue reading →]]> On the last weekend I was helping a friend getting perl on his computer running. He also needed a mySQL Server. He is using Windows, so we hoped it should become easy, because precompiled versions are almost always available for the Win32 platform.

With the help of my favourite remote application LogMeIn.com I connected to his windows computer with my Mac. Installation of mySQL was done in a few seconds and ActiveState perl, too.

So we copied my scripts to his machine and did the first run which stopped, because some perl modules are missing. Ok, that is normally no big deal and they can be easily installed with the package manager – I thought.

A big suprise came up when I typed in ppm and saw a GUI. Huh? A Interface for modules in perl? Nice done and easy to use, but DBD::mysql is missing.

The next step was to try to use it with the command cpan which gives me the classic command line interface shell of the origin ppm. Installation ran quickly thru, but the packages could not be compiled. So I tried to get the ppd file and that lost success, too.

We solved the problem by recognizing that in perl 5.8+ the drivers are not available at all. Using the GUI ppm and adding the repository

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/

made it. Then we just searched for DBD-mysql and it went thru without any further problems.

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