C:\> perl -e"package Foo; use base qw! DynaLoader !; bootstrap Foo;" Can't locate loadable object for module Foo in @INC (@INC contains: C:/perl/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:/perl/5.10.1/lib C:/perl/site/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:/perl/site/5.10.1/lib .) at C:/perl/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DynaLoader.pm line 103 DynaLoader::croak('Can\'t locate loadable object for module Foo in @INC (@INC co...') called at C:/perl/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DynaLoader.pm line 170 DynaLoader::bootstrap('Foo') called at -e line 1 #### C:\>perldoc perldiag |grep -C2 "loadable object" the file, say, by doing "make install". Can't locate loadable object for module %s in @INC (F) The module you loaded is trying to load an external library, like for example, "foo.so" or "bar.dll", but the DynaLoader module #### C:\>cat 2 Can't locate loadable object for module Foo in @INC (@INC contains: C:/perl/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:/perl/5.10.1/lib C:/perl/site/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:/perl/site/5.10.1/lib .) at -e line 1 C:\>splain 2 Can't locate loadable object for module Foo in @INC (@INC contains: C:/perl/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:/perl/5.10.1/lib C:/perl/site/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:/perl/site/5.10.1/lib .) at -e line 1 (#1) Can't locate loadable object for module Foo in @INC (@INC contains: C:/perl/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:/perl/5.10.1/lib C:/perl/site/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread C:/perl/site/5.10.1/lib .) at -e line 1 C:\>cat 2 Can't locate loadable object for module Foo in @INC C:\>splain 2 Can't locate loadable object for module Foo in @INC (#1) (F) The module you loaded is trying to load an external library, like for example, foo.so or bar.dll, but the DynaLoader module was unable to locate this library. See DynaLoader.