I love activestate for all my perl on windows needs. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:53 PM, chris fedde <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chris@fedde.us">chris@fedde.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I hear that cygwin can be setup to work well with CPAN but I've never<br>
succeeded. two other perl distros work well on windows too;<br>
Strawberry and Activestate. Strawberry is targeted to work well with<br>
CPAN. Including XS based modules. Activestate includes their own<br>
package manager that has a large subset of CPAN modules available.<br>
Both can be found easily by googling for them.<br>
<br>
For oracle connectivity you'll also need the oracle instant client<br>
basic and sdk (from <a href="http://oracle.com" target="_blank">oracle.com</a>). They'll want a username/password for<br>
you and a promise that you're not exporting their product.<br>
<br>
Google for "portable ubuntu" for another interesting option.<br>
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On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Mike Staver <<a href="mailto:staver@fimble.com">staver@fimble.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I realize this isn't a direct linux question - but I'm hoping somebody on<br>
> this list knows something about cygwin. I have never used it before, and<br>
> I have a project I'm working on that prohibits the use of a real *nix<br>
> environment at this time. A requirement I'm working on requires a perl<br>
> script. One of the things this script is supposed to do is connect to an<br>
> Oracle database via ODBC to obtain some information. I don't think I'd<br>
> have a problem doing this on Mac OS, Linux, Solaris, etc. However, I've<br>
> been provided a Windows 2003 server with cygwin installed to accomplish<br>
> this. From what I have read, I need the Win32::ODBC perl module in order<br>
> to make this happen. Not being familar with cygwin, I tried installing<br>
> the module the same way I would on any *nix box:<br>
><br>
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