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Some Progress with 5.8.0

I’ve managed to get DBD-mysql installed on ActivePerl 5.8.0 build 804.

Through some specific searching (Google was coming up with nothing and I was hoping the answer was on a support site that was being blocked from it) on sites like CPAN, ActiveState and mySQL I managed to run across a note from the author of DBD-mysql, Jochen Wiedmann, that had the answer.

Only problem? MT doesn’t recognize DBD-mysql as being installed. But it is:

ppm> query DBD-mysql
Querying target 1 (ActivePerl 5.8.0.804)
1. DBD-mysql [2.1020] A MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DB~
ppm>

I may have to kick this one upstairs, as it were.

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10 Responses to “Some Progress with 5.8.0”

  1. Interestingly, my experiments with the Google API found some additional pages for me as I was searching using 5.8.0 but when I made this post I used 5.8 as a keyword instead.

  2. “MT doesn’t recognize DBD-mysql as being installed.”

    Can you elaborate? Maybe someone reading this blog will have come across this issue already.

  3. “Can you elaborate?”

    A little: mt-check.cgi told me I didn’t have it installed.

    I posted on the Support forum at movabletype.org, I’ll let it perc a little then look at it again.

    Thanks

  4. Resolved.

    http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/000063.html

  5. Hey,

    Here is a site which has a few PPD files to use with PPM. DBD-mysql is there. It was great for me because I use DBD-SQLite but AS didn’t have that for 5.8 so there you go. : )

    Bob

  6. Hey,

    Here is a site which has a few PPD files to use with PPM. DBD-mysql is there. It was great for me because I use DBD-SQLite but AS didn’t have that for 5.8 so there you go. : )

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

    If you want to add it as a repository:

    http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppmserver?urn:/PPMServer58

    Bob

  7. I installed DBD-mysql from http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/, but it say’s it can’t find libmysql.dll. When I rename mysql.dll to libmysql.dll, it say’s that it can’t find entry point in dll or something like that… Why?

    My system: Win2000, ActiveState Perl 5.8.0.804

  8. Well don’t rename .DLLs - that clearly won’t work.

    However, I’m not sure who you wouldn’t have the libmysql.dll file. What version of MYSQL do you have installed?

  9. Teoh Chiew Liang on February 13th, 2003 at 3:21 am

    Sir / Madam,

    I would like to request DBD and DBI modules for Windows Version (Perl 5.8), please tell me where can I get the module.

    I have try to download from SPAN and encountered :
    DBI Version 1.14 - install failed with error message “no suitable installation target found for package DBI”
    DBD-oracle Version 1.03 - install failed with error message “no suitable installation target found for package DBI
    DBD-oracle8 Version 1.06 - install failed with error message “no suitable installation target found for package DBI

    Please helThanks

    Regards
    Teoh Chiew Liang

  10. Teoh Chiew Liang,

    Please see http://www.johnsjottings.com/archives/2003/01/02/running_on_580_804.html

    for the answer to your problem.

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