Comments on: ActiveState Perl 5.10, Windows XP, and DBD-mysql

By: Haidong Ji

Haidong Ji — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:13:36 +0000

Hey Jan,

Thanks a lot for that. Really appreciate it!

Jan Dubois — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:11:32 +0000

The ActiveState repositories for Windows have now been updated with DBD-mysql 4.011 for Perl 5.8, 5.10, and 5.10 64-bit.

Ariel — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:52:01 +0000

Good suggestions guys, thanks. I had that exact problem and Jan Dubois’ command line tips worked perfectly

Haidong Ji — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:50:04 +0000

Excellent. Thanks all for the pointers. I will try that out when I do it next time.

Jan Dubois — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:11:01 +0000

It is also easy from the commandline:

ppm repo add uwinnipeg
ppm install DBD-mysql

For a list of available packages you can run

ppm repo suggest

Alexandr Ciornii — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:12:41 +0000

You need to add additional repositories to ActiveState – it is possible to do quickly in GUI interface.

Yannick Gagne — Thu, 14 May 2009 12:03:47 +0000

I also use ActivePerl, I agree that DBD::mysql should be available easily after install.

You need to add repositories to be able to install DBD::mysql with PPM.

Hope this helps!