In general, on Windows, it's best to just use ActiveState Perl and the
PPM package manager to install a pre-built version of DBD::Oracle.

If you built Perl with gcc, read README.wingcc as well as this file.

--- other information, some of which is out of date ---
4/27/04 -- Jeff Urlwin

Do not untar this distribution in a directory with spaces.  This will not work.

i.e. C:\Program Files\ORacle\DBD Oracle Distribution is bad while
c:\dev\dbd-oracle-1.15 is good ;)

9/14/02 -- Michael Chase

Makefile.PL uses Win32::TieRegistry or Win32::Registry to find the
current Oracle Home directory if the ORACLE_HOME environment variable
is not set.  If neither module is installed, you must set ORACLE_HOME
before running Makefile.PL.  Since the registry location of the current
Oracle Home is in different locations in different Oracle versions,
it is usually safer to set ORACLE_HOME before running Makefile.PL.

10/24/97 -- Jeff Urlwin

Tested with Oracle 8 and OCI 8.  Well, not the *new* OCI api, but
using the same api as always.  This version now searches for OCI
include and library files in $ORACLE_HOME\OCI80, then 
$ORACLE_HOME\OCI73.  It will use the first of these found.

In order for the tests to connect successfully, I had to
set the environment variable ORACLE_USERID to
scott/tiger@mydb (where mydb is the tns name of your server)

4/8/97 -- Jeff Urlwin

Even though the Oracle libraries under Win32 (NT) do not require the
environment variable ORACLE_HOME be set for proper operation, the
Makefile.PL does.  Please set the ORACLE_HOME variable to your oracle
home directory.  Mine, for example, is H:\ORANT.

The environment variable TWO_TASK is not supported under Windows.
Instead Oracle uses the settings LOCAL and REMOTE as described in
the Oracle Networking Documentation, "Oracle Network Products Getting
Started for Windows Platforms."

This version was created and tested with the 7.3 client libraries (see
if you have an OCI73 directory).  This version of the Oracle clients
have a convenient organization, including OCI73\INCLUDE, OCI73\LIB,
etc.  It also has a nice samples directory to test with.  Older
versions had the OCI samples under RDMBS72.  This version has not been
tested (and will not currently work) with anything other than the 7.3
versions.

Questions should be directed towards the dbi-users mailing list. I will
try to answer them quickly there.  Please put something about Win32 or
95 or NT in the subject, as I get TONS of other email and spend a fair
amount of time weeding out messages that are not relevant to what I
do.  I may miss something if the subject is not clear.