Sunday, November 25, 2007

DBD::Oracle Activestate Perl on Windows

1. Oracle 9 oci.dll has problems with the function calls within oralce.dll by Activestate

2. Do not use the Graphical Perl Package Manager use ppm install/uninstall command prompt tool instead

3. Download the Oracle instant client avaiable from Activestate. (agree to the oracle disclaimer at the end of the ppm install DBD-oracle)

4. If after complete installation of DBD-Oracle still you got messages like procedure entry point not found, replace the oralce client oci.dll with the ones provided by activestate.

You are good to go

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