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Installing ActiveState Perl on Windows
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To install the MySQL `DBD' module with ActiveState Perl on Windows, you
should do the following:

   * Get ActiveState Perl from
     `http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/index.html' and
     install it.

   * 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:\> c:\perl\bin\ppm.pl

   * If you have not already done so, install `DBI':

          ppm> install DBI

   * If this succeeds, run the following command:

          install ftp://ftp.de.uu.net/pub/CPAN/authors/id/JWIED/DBD-mysql-1.2212.x86.ppd

The above should work at least with ActiveState Perl Version 5.6.

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";