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From: "Michael Kairys" <kairys@comcast.net>
Subject:  Re: Need help with Perl/Tk
Date:  Thu, 13 Dec 2007 08:35:13 -0500
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"Sisyphus" <sisyphus1@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message 
news:3551E1877C7A4F9EA99799CED176646E@desktop2...

> Yes ... but note that the error message doesn't actually say that 
> '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' could not be found. 
> In fact, it says that 
> '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' could not be 
> *loaded* ... which implies that 
> '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Tk/Tk.dll' *was* found .... 
> but ... ummm ... couldn't be *loaded*.
>
> Why couldn't it be loaded ? Perhaps because it tried to load a file 
> (usually, in my experience, a dll) that couldn't be found at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/DynaLoader.pm line 230.

I see. Well, I can get no further info from the debugger; it croaks on line 
230 just as the comment says:

    # Many dynamic extension loading problems will appear to come from
    # this section of code: XYZ failed at line 123 of DynaLoader.pm.
    # Often these errors are actually occurring in the initialisation
    # C code of the extension XS file. Perl reports the error as being
    # in this perl code simply because this was the last perl code
    # it executed.

    my $libref = dl_load_file($file, $module->dl_load_flags) or croak...

But more to this story on the other side of this thread...


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