[clue-tech] Cygwin, Perl, & CPAN

[chris fedde]

I hear that cygwin can be setup to work well with CPAN but I've never
succeeded.   two other perl distros work well on windows too;
Strawberry and Activestate.  Strawberry is targeted to work well with
CPAN. Including XS based modules.  Activestate includes their own
package manager that has a large subset of CPAN modules available.
Both can be found easily by googling for them.

For oracle connectivity you'll also need the oracle instant client
basic and sdk (from oracle.com).  They'll want a username/password for
you and a promise that you're not exporting their product.

Google for "portable ubuntu" for another interesting option.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> wrote:
> I realize this isn't a direct linux question - but I'm hoping somebody on
> this list knows something about cygwin.  I have never used it before, and
> I have a project I'm working on that prohibits the use of a real *nix
> environment at this time. A requirement I'm working on requires a perl
> script.  One of the things this script is supposed to do is connect to an
> Oracle database via ODBC to obtain some information.  I don't think I'd
> have a problem doing this on Mac OS, Linux, Solaris, etc.  However, I've
> been provided a Windows 2003 server with cygwin installed to accomplish
> this.  From what I have read, I need the Win32::ODBC perl module in order
> to make this happen.  Not being familar with cygwin, I tried installing
> the module the same way I would on any *nix box:
>