All, I noticed that an embedded perl does not allow for dynamic loading - eg. when I try to use Data::Dumper, I get -
Can't load module Data::Dumper, dynamic loading not available in this perl. (You may need to build a new perl which supports dynamic loading or has the Data::Dumper module statically linked into it. Now, this is a particularly bad thing for using modules that use Inline - so I was wondering if LD_LIBRARY_PATH could somehow be tweaked to override this message, ie: adding /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i686-linux-64int/auto/Data/Dumper so that use statement picks up Dumper.so directly rather than using any DynaLoader magic. Either that, or somehow turn on dynamic loading for embedded perls. Is there an easy way to do this? Digging through Dynaloader, I see that there's a lot more going on than simply loading a '.so' file - that through dl_install_xsub the '.so' files get mapped to perl subs and registered with perl. Or is this issue addressed in perl-5.9.2? What would people suggest as an avenue of approach for implementing this? Ed