Re: Win32::ODBC fails to load in perl.

[Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>]

matthew@ wrote:
> The following simple perl script.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> 
> use Win32::ODBC;
> 
> When run results in:
> 
> Can't load
> '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/auto/Win32/ODBC/ODBC.dll'
> for module Win32::ODBC: No such file or directory at
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin/DynaLoader.pm line 201.
>  at ./a line 3
> Compilation failed in require at ./a line 3.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./a line 3.

  Yep, confirmed.

> This is the actual file:
> ls -al /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/auto/Win32/ODBC/ODBC.dll
> -rwxr-xr-x+ 1 Administrator Users 189952 Feb 16  2008
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/auto/Win32/ODBC/ODBC.dll

  It appears to lack a couple of supporting DLLs:

$ cygcheck /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/auto/Win32/ODBC/ODBC.dll
F:\cygwin-1.7\lib\perl5\vendor_perl\5.10\i686-cygwin\auto\Win32\ODBC\ODBC.dll
  C:\WINNT\system32\KERNEL32.dll
    C:\WINNT\system32\NTDLL.DLL
  F:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygwin1.dll
    C:\WINNT\system32\ADVAPI32.DLL
      C:\WINNT\system32\RPCRT4.DLL
cygcheck: track_down: could not find cygiodbc-2.dll

cygcheck: track_down: could not find cygiodbcinst-2.dll

  F:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygperl5_10.dll
    F:\cygwin-1.7\bin\cygcrypt-0.dll


  According to the package search, these don't exist anywhere in the distro.
I found an announcement posting for perl-libwin32 that says

"To build from source you will need the libiodbc package, and apply a
small patch:"

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2008-06/msg00022.html

so with a bit of luck you should be able to build yourself a copy quite easily.

    cheers,
      DaveK



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