Remember to actually *READ* the README file! And re-read it if you have any problems. #### Your LANG environment variable is set to "de_CH.UTF-8" This is known to cause problems in some perl installations - even stopping this Makefile.PL from running without errors. If you have problems please try re-running with LANG unset or with the utf part of LANG removed. #### look DBD::ODBC export LANG=C perl Makefile.PL make make test # if the test was successful make install #### You are using a Perl configured with threading enabled. Please read the warnings in DBI about this. You should also be aware that on non-Windows platforms ODBC drivers come in two forms, thread-safe and non-thread-safe drivers and you may need to make sure you are using the right one.