i am using Komodo IDE. the line "use Win32::Multimedia::Joystick;" puts up the following message "compilation failed in require BEGIN failed compilation aborted" so Komodo is having a problem with one or more of the included modules which are if i try to "run" the Joystick PM in Komodo (i know this is not something to run but it checks the includes etc and gives the following message. the files it is complaining about not finding are just where it is looking for them. Can't load 'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/Win32/MultiMedia/Joystick/Joystick.dll' for module Win32::MultiMedia::Joystick: load_file:The specified module could not be found at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 226. at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 129 DynaLoader::croak('Can\'t load \'C:/Perl/site/lib/auto/Win32/MultiMedia/Joystick...') called at C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 226 DynaLoader::bootstrap('Win32::MultiMedia::Joystick', 0.01) called at C:\Perl\site\lib\Win32\MultiMedia\Joystick.pm line 46