Installing ActiveState Perl on Windows 2.13.2 Installing ActiveState Perl on Windows 2.13.3 Problems Using the Perl DBI/DBD Interface 300 On Windows, you should do the following to install the MySQL  DBD  module with ActiveState Perl: 1. Get ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/ and install it. 2. Open a console window. 4. Start the PPM program: 5. If you have not previously done so, install  DBI : 6. If this succeeds, run the following command: If Perl reports that it cannot find the  ../mysql/mysql.so  module, the problem is probably that Perl cannot locate the  libmysqlclient.so  shared library. You should be able to fix this problem by one of the following methods: Note that you may also need to modify the  -L  options if there are other libraries that the linker fails to find. For example, if the linker cannot find  libc  because it is in  /lib  and the link command specifies  -L/usr/ lib , change the  -L  option to  -L/lib  or add  -L/lib  to the existing link command. If you get the following errors from  DBD::mysql , you are probably using  gcc  (or using an old binary compiled with  gcc ): /usr/bin/perl: can’t resolve symbol ’__moddi3’ use DBI; $dbh= DBI->connect("DBI:ODBC:$dsn",$user,$password) || die "Got error $DBI::errstr when connecting to $dsn
"; ppm>  install DBD-mysql ppm>  install DBI C:\>  C:\perl\bin\ppm.pl C:\>  set HTTP_proxy=my.proxy.com:3128 3. If necessary, set the  HTTP_proxy  variable. For example, you might try a setting like this: This procedure should work with ActiveState Perl 5.6 or higher. If you cannot get the procedure to work, you should install the ODBC driver instead and connect to the MySQL server through ODBC: •Copy  libmysqlclient.so  to the directory where your other shared libraries are located (probably  usr/lib  or  /lib ). •Modify the  -L  options used to compile  DBD::mysql  to reflect the actual location of libmysqlclient.so . •On Linux, you can add the path name of the directory where  libmysqlclient.so  is located to the  etc/ld.so.conf  file. • Add the path name of the directory where  libmysqlclient.so  is located to the  LD_RUN_PATH environment variable. Some systems use  LD_LIBRARY_PATH  instead.