issues installing perl DBI-mysql in windows

Question

I have downloaded and installed ActivePerl on my Windows 7-64 machine. Everything went smooth, and also loaded the perl interpreter into my Eclipse platform. However, when I try to access a localhost MySQL database, I got the following error:

$database = "<database>";
$host = "localhost";
$user = "<user>";
$password = "<password>";

#connect to MySQL database
my $db = DBI->connect(
            "DBI:mysql:database=$db:host=$host",
            $user,
            $password
    ) or die "Can't Connect to database: $DBI::errstr\n";

then I get the following error:

     install_driver(mysql) failed: Can't locate DBD/mysql.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Users/souzamor/workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.epic.debug C:/Users/souzamor/workspace/Parser C:/Perl64/site/lib C:/Perl64/lib .) at (eval 3) line 3.
    Perhaps the DBD::mysql perl module hasn't been fully installed,
    or perhaps the capitalisation of 'mysql' isn't right.
    Available drivers: CSV, DBM, ExampleP, File, Gofer, ODBC, Oracle, Pg, Proxy, SQLite, 
Sponge.
     at C:/Users/souzamor/workspace/Parser/Parser.pl line 14.

Also, when I try to install DBD-Mysql I get:

C:\Perl64\bin>ppm install DBD-Mysql
ppm install failed: Can't find any package that provides DBD-Mysql

I have installed DBI , Data-Table , but I can't install DBD-Mysql . Any thoughts? Thanks

Answer 1

See DBD-mysql ppm info page , build log file .

ActiveState tries to apply some local patches before building, but it fails. Contact them to have this fixed. Revert to 5.14 meanwhile for which a PPM package exists, or try to build DBD-mysql manually on your own system if you know how.

Answer 2

If your using a Linux machine you can install the package using and package manager. The package i believe is libdbd-mysql-perl

If that doesn't work you can console in to CPAN directly and install it using the command install DBD::mysql

This link has a bunch of different options you can try if what i mentioned above doesn't work

http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/RUDY/DBD-mysql-2.9008/INSTALL.html

Answer 3

You need to install the DBD::mysql module. ActivePerl comes with the ppm utility to install modules.

ie, from the command line run this command: Quote
ppm install DBD::mysql

regards, samadhan