Re: [TCLUG:2189] winnt, perl, postgres and linux

[Tom Cross <tomc@kendeco.com>]

On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 UserCx@aol.com wrote:

> Hi all, I have to accomplish the following ;
> 
> Use perl scripts on the WindowsNT machine (it uses the activeware perl port) 
> to update data on a postgres or mysql server running on a linux machine.
> 
> I donot have the Win32:ODBC packages installed for perl on the NT machines and
> I am not sure I will be able to get it installed and then the DSN's configured
> on each one of these NT machines.
> 
> So basically I need to be able to talk to the postgres/mysql server with a
> plain perl module.  I downloaded a perl postgres module and to be able to
> build it on NT I need to download the postgres source also which I would like
> to avoid.
> 
> Does anybody have any suggestions on how I can go about achieving this with
> the minimum of builds/installs/configurations.
> 
> I am open to using other databases on the linux server too if I can get it
> done some other way.
> 
> One possible approach I am exploring is to have a perl program listen on some
> socket on the linux server and then the client on the NT machine can send data
> to this socket for the linux server to store it to the database. But that is
> work and I am not too keen on doing it !

I've heard mysql compiles/runs on NT, you might have better luck getting a
mysql client working on NT.  

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