Can't find sqlplus. Pity, it would have helped. OCI directory not found, please install OCI in C:\Program Files\Perforce at Makefile.PL line 228. perl 5.006001 on MSWin32 (MSWin32-x86-multi-thread) Remember to actually *READ* the README file! Especially if you have any problems. Trying to find an ORACLE_HOME Found C:\Program Files\Perforce C:\Program Files\MSVS\Common\Tools\WinNT C:\Program Files\MSVS\Common\MSDev98\Bin C:\Program Files\MSVS\Common\Tools C:\Program Files\MSVS\VC98\bin C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Tools\BINN C:\Program Files\cvsnt WARNING: Setting ORACLE_HOME env var to C:\Program Files\Perforce for you. WARNING: The tests will probably fail unless you set ORACLE_HOME yourself! Using Oracle in C:\Program Files\Perforce I'm having trouble finding your Oracle version number... trying harder WARNING: I could not determine Oracle client version so I'll just default to version 8.0.0.0. Some features of DBD::Oracle may not work. Oracle version based logic in Makefile.PL may produce erroneous results. You can use "perl Makefile.PL -V X.Y.Z" to specify a your client version. Oracle version 8.0.0.0 (8.0) failed building DBD-Oracle prerequisite DBI aborting build of DBD-Oracle: failed prerequisites