DBD::MySQL Running on 64bit server

[Riklin]

Forgive me in advance... I'm struggling a bit here to explain what I barely understand (lack of experience).

I have stumbled on the plugins and waded through them. There are some excellent, excellent plugins there, indeed! As I understand it, in order to get the plugins to work, you need to get DBD::MySQL to work. Otherwise the plugins don't do anything. I tried using them and nothing happened other than the entire perl script stopped working when a single plugin entry was added.

My server is a windows 7 Pro machine. 8 core, 32 gig ram, 1tbx4 RAID10 drives very fast internet connection, etc...

I have deviated from the standard installation instructions slightly. I install and run 64 bit versions of as many of the components as possible.

ActivePerl 5.14.2 build 1402 64bit.
MySQL 5.1 x64

Compiled with Visual Studio 2013 in x64 mode for 8core.

The server works flawlessly, so far. I update source and recompile once a week.


I found the webpage link to getting DBD::MySQL to work, but as far as I can tell that works with one very specific version 32 bit version of Perl.

Can you give me any advice as to how to get this to work with a 64 bit version of MySQL and Active Perl without spending $1000+ for a perl license?


Thanks,
Rick (Halls Havoc)