I have many years programming experience, but am new to Perl. I have installed Perl on Windows XP Pro with IIS and have a 'hello world' program working. I am trying to set up the W3C Validator. When I click the link that launches 'check.pl' I get the error:-
Can't load 'D:/perl/site/lib/auto/SGML/Parser/OpenSP/OpenSP.dll' for m
+odule SGML::Parser::OpenSP: load_file:The specified module could not 
+be found at D:/perl/site/lib/XSLoader.pm line 66.  at D:/perl/site/li
+b/SGML/Parser/OpenSP.pm line 18

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This is mid-way through the initial set of 'use' lines 
use CGI                  2.81 qw(-newstyle_urls -private_tempfiles red
+irect);
use CGI::Carp                 qw(carp croak fatalsToBrowser);
use Config::General      2.19 qw(); # Need 2.19 for -AutoLaunder
use Encode                    qw();
use Encode::Alias             qw();
use Encode::HanExtra          qw(); # for some chinese character encod
+ings,
                                    # e.g gb18030
# use Encode::JIS2K             qw(); # ditto extra japanese encodings
use File::Spec                qw();
use HTML::Encoding       0.52 qw();
use HTML::Parser         3.25 qw(); # Need 3.25 for $p->ignore_element
+s.
use HTML::Template       2.6  qw();
use HTTP::Negotiate           qw();
use HTTP::Request             qw();
use HTTP::Headers::Auth       qw(); # Needs to be imported after other
+ HTTP::*.
use SGML::Parser::OpenSP      qw();
use URI                       qw();
use URI::Escape               qw(uri_escape);
use XML::LibXML               qw();

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OpenSP.dll exists in the path as given - so why doesnt it load? I changed XSLoader.pm to have 2 additonal print lines 
   print "Loading XSLoader::load for $module ($file)<br>\n";

    my $libref = dl_load_file($file, 0) or do { 
        require Carp;
        Carp::croak("Can't load '$file' for module $module: " . dl_err
+or());
    };
   print "Loaded XSLoader::load for $module ($file)<br>\n";

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All the 'use' commands prior to use SGML::Parser::OpenSP show both the 'Loading' and 'Loaded' messages from the print statements. However when this 'use' statement is processed the 'Loading' message is displayed but not the 'Loaded' message - instead the error is generated I am pulling my hair out and shortly will be a 'tonsured monk' Advice greatly appreciated.

In reply to Struggling to solve OpenSP failure by tsrplatelayer

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