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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:17:00 -0400
From: Peter Buckley <peter DOT buckley AT cportcorp DOT com>
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Subject: dynamic perl shipped with cygwin
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I am getting an error trying to load an IO module 
that is required by a script that someone else in 
my company wrote. I searched the archives with 
google and skimmed the perl-5.6.1.README- I have 
perl version 5.6.1-2, with the accompanying latest 
of cygwin that I installed today. I got this error- 

Can't load module IO, dynamic loading not available in this perl.
  (You may need to build a new perl executable which either supports
  dynamic loading or has the IO module statically linked into it.)
 at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/cygwin-multi/IO/Handle.pm line 256

It looks like I have to compile my own perl, which 
I am willing to try (make was easy enough :-). 
I have seen some documentation on how to do it, but if 
anyone has an favorite up-to-date websites, please let me know. 

I don't understand why the perl-5.6.1.README says 
"This package is configured to support dynamic loading" 
and I am getting an error that seems to contradict that statement. 

TIA,
Peter

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