in reply to Having trouble with Crypt::SSLeay

The error
Can't locate loadable object for module Crypt::SSLeay in @INC
might mean that Perl couldn't load the XS component of the module because the required external dlls (ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll, in this case) either weren't found in your PATH environment variable, or perhaps were found but the versions weren't compatible with the versions of the dlls used to compile the Perl module.

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Re^2: Having trouble with Crypt::SSLeay ("locate")
by tye (Sage) on Sep 07, 2006 at 14:26 UTC

    Actually, the situation you describe would cause attempting to load the "loadable object" to fail, but wouldn't prevent the "loadable object" from being found.

    - tye        

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      OK I don't feel so bad anymore.
      First thanks to all of the valuable input. I have subsequently downloaded and installed Active Package Manager - what an incredible tool! Makes life with Perl easy.

      But... I tried to install the wbmail-gmail package and got: Synchronizing Database ... DONE
      Mail-Webmail-Gmail marked for install

      ERROR: Can't find any package that provide Crypt-SSLeay for Mail-Webmail-Gmail


      Any suggestions would be most welcome!
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        Within ppm4 (the gui interface), you can add repositories by selecting Edit -> Preferences -> Repositories, and then adding the corresponding location (and a name you want to remember it by). A couple of ones you might want to add that have some popular packages not present in ActiveState's (extensive) repository are http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm and http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/. The Crypt-SSLeay package is in the uwinnipeg repository, but this contains a post-install script to download and install the necessary openssl dlls, and the current ppm4 gui doesn't handle post-install scripts. What you can do is add these respositories, quit the gui, and then run 

         C:\> ppm install Crypt-SSLeay

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        from a console window.

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