[clue-tech] Cygwin, Perl, & CPAN

[Silas Martinez]

I love activestate for all my perl on windows needs.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM, chris fedde <chris at fedde.us> wrote:

> 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:
> >
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