Aha, now that is more interesting -- taking your advice from earlier enabling debugging info perl -pi.orig -le " if( m{^\s*(OPTIMIZE|CCFLAGS|LDDLFLAGS|LDFLAGS)\s*=}i ){ s{ -s }{ }g } " Makefile
And now I'm cooking with gas :) The relevant snippet from depends.exe
GetProcAddress(0x674C0000 [auto\io\IO.DLL], "boot_IO") called from "PE
+RL516.DLL" at address 0x713DD74F and returned 0x674C2670.
LoadLibraryExA("blib\arch\auto\XML\LibXML\LibXML.dll", 0x00000000, LOA
+D_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH) called from "PERL516.DLL" at address 0x71
+3DA0DE.
LDR: LdrRelocateImageWithBias() failed 0xc000007b
LDR: OldBase : 6E400000
LDR: NewBase : 010A0000
LDR: Diff : 0xffffffff92ca0000
LDR: NextOffset : 012D9F88
LDR: *NextOffset : 0x302e
LDR: SizeOfBlock : 0x5c
LoadLibraryExA("blib\arch\auto\XML\LibXML\LibXML.dll", 0x00000000, LOA
+D_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH) returned NULL. Error: %1 is not a valid W
+in32 application (193).
now Dynaloader also spits out for module XML::LibXML: load_file:%1 is not a valid Win32 application ... |