To install the MySQL DBD module with ActiveState Perl on
Win32, you should do the following:
- Open a DOS shell.
- If required, set the HTTP_proxy variable. For example, you might try:
set HTTP_proxy=my.proxy.com:3128
- Start the PPM program:
C:\perl\bin\ppm.pl
- If you have not already done so, install
DBI: install DBI
- If this succeeds, install
DBD::mysql:
http://www.mysql.com/Contrib/ppd/DBD-mysql.ppd
If you can't get the above to work, you should instead install the MyODBC
driver and connect to MySQL server through ODBC.
use DBI;
$dbh= DBI->connect("DBI:ODBC:$dsn","$user","$password") ||
die "Got error $DBI::errstr when connecting to $dsn\n";
