Re: Perl with Postrges under Cygwin

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> Hallo Jim.George,
>
> Am Samstag, 15. Juni 2002 um 10:17 schriebst du:
>
> >         That's where my problem starts.  I went to CPAN to find a DBI and
> >   DBD for Postgres (had to grab the ODBC DBD as there wasn't one for
> >   Postgres), trouble is that the install of the DBI pgsql relies on dynamic
> >   libraries so I was hoping there was a binary port of these modules or
> >   advice on installation?
>
> DBD::Pg builds OOTB, with current DBI and Cygwin Perl versions.
>

I downloaded DBD::Pg but the README.win32 talks about Active-Perl, NT4, and
DBD-Pg-0.95, none of which I have.  I run Win2K, Perl 5.6.1 and haven't managed
to install DBD-Pg (nor any Perl/Postgres interface or driver).

The binary package, when un-tarred, creates a 'blib' sub-directory but I have
no idea where to put this.

Also my paths don't appear to match those of the README.win32.

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> .so files are never there, just .dll libs.  If you have installed
> postgres there are also the libs and headers.  Look in /lib or /bin
> for the .dll's and in /usr/include/postgresql for the headers.
>

the problem is I'm so turned around now on this I'm not sure where to start and
what directories are what.

Could you explain to me the packages I need (and dependencies) to be able to use
perl with postresql under cygwin?  I realise I'm virtually asking for things
to be handed to me on a plate but this is only to get to 1st base in another
project (SpamAssassin with a configurable white_list).


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>
> Gerrit
>