Archive for the 'perl' Category

Strawberry Perl

26 March, 2008 in Windows, perl

I just found Strawberry Perl - which purports to be a 100% compatible version of Perl for Windows. I’ll give it a go, might be better than ActiveState Perl (I have found a number of issues with installing modules from CPAN with AS Perl)./
http://strawberryperl.com/

Installing ActiveState Perl modules on Windows

26 March, 2008 in perl

I have to use Windows XP at work, but luckily Perl happily via the ActiveState Perl distribution. They have a package manager called ppm that is really very good at downloading and installing Perl modules. There is a little bit of trickery if you are behind a proxy with the set up so here is [...]

Building Perl DBD::Oracle driver for DBI on Ubuntu 7.04

27 September, 2007 in Oracle, perl, ubuntu

DBD::Oracle is not in the Ubuntu repositories so I’m going to build it from source. Oh what fun.
Steps
Download DBD::Oracle source from CPAN and untar to a directory somewhere
Download Oracle Instant Client for Linux x86 - get the Basic, SQL*Plus and SDK RPM packages for version 10.2.0.3
Install build-essential and alien from repositories if you haven’t already
Convert [...]