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I still believe that a comprehensive repository of Perl core error messages would be great.

Its called perldiag.

it doesn't say which object it cannot locate.

Um, the one for module X :D

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 .) a
+t C:/perl/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread/DynaLoader.pm line 103
        DynaLoader::croak('Can\'t locate loadable object for module Fo
+o in @INC (@INC co...') called at C:/perl/5.10.1/lib/MSWin32-x86-mult
+i-thread/DynaLoader.pm line 170
        DynaLoader::bootstrap('Foo') called at -e line 1
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Technically its looking for "Foo$Config{dlext}", so maybe the error message should actually spell that out?

2. perldiag doesn't mention this error.

Yes it does

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 librar
+y,
        like for example, "foo.so" or "bar.dll", but the DynaLoader mo
+dule
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3. splain is misleading at best, and arguably wrong:

Hmm, looks incomplete, I think you found a bug, you should report it

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 .) a
+t -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 .) a
+t -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, l
+ike
    for example, foo.so or bar.dll, but the DynaLoader module was
    unable to locate this library.  See DynaLoader.
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In reply to Re^3: Can't locate loadable object for module X in @INC (@INC contains: ... ) by Anonymous Monk
in thread Can't locate loadable object for module X in @INC (@INC contains: ... ) by arthurg

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