I have written a script that uses WWW::Curl::Easy. I wrote it on Cygwin having installed libcurl from source and WWW-Curl from Source. I am now trying to copy this to another Cygwin installation that hasn't got the compilers or make tools - and it is impractical to get them there. Having copied over all of the perl @INC directories, when I create a new WWW::Curl::Easy it gets stuck in an endless loop in AUTOLOAD in Easy.pm. Does anyone know what AUTOLOAD does or how it works - it looks cryptic to me, or why it should be recursive on the one machine but not the other? Is copying modules in this way possible? This is the code for the recursive AUTOLOAD function in WWW/Curl/Easy.pm 
sub AUTOLOAD {

   # This AUTOLOAD is used to 'autoload' constants from the constant()
   # XS function.

   ( my $constname = $AUTOLOAD ) =~ s/.*:://;
   return constant( $constname, 0);

}

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