note Anonymous Monk <p> Same messsage :) <c> $ perl badcrabs.txt ret=1849688064 glr=2 $ perl -MDigest::SHA1 badcrabs.txt ret=0 glr=193 </c> <p> In depends.exe its now <pre>LDR: LdrRelocateImageWithBias() failed 0xc000007b LDR: OldBase : 6E400000 LDR: NewBase : <b>00A9</b>0000 LDR: Diff : 0xffffffff<b>9269</b>0000 LDR: NextOffset : <b>00CC9F90</b> LDR: *NextOffset : 0x302e LDR: SizeOfBlock : 0x5c </pre> <p>Compared to -MDigest::SHA1 -MXML::LibXML <pre>LDR: LdrRelocateImageWithBias() failed 0xc000007b LDR: OldBase : 6E400000 LDR: NewBase : <b>010A</b>0000 LDR: Diff : 0xffffffff<b>92ca</b>0000 LDR: NextOffset : <b>012D9F90</b> LDR: *NextOffset : 0x302e LDR: SizeOfBlock : 0x5c</pre> <p> Apparently LdrRelocate... errors happen ( [href://http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15222703|Weird problem loading a dll with win32 LoadLibrary() function] ) commonly with cygwin , and they recommend using some "rebaseall" shell script, and I saw they do [href://http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl5-porters/147382/|some rebase-ing for MakeMaker/cygwin] <p> So I look through my dlls <c>$ perl -lne " chomp; print; print qx{objdump -x $_ |grep ImageBase }; " dlls.txt </C> and both Digest/SHA1/SHA1.dll and auto/XML/LibXML/LibXML.dll share ImageBase 6e400000 <p> Not sure if this is a problem but [href://http://www.sourceware.org/ml/cygwin-apps/2011-07/msg00002.html] / [href://http://www.sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2010-07/msg00258.html] / [href://http://perldoc.perl.org/perl5140delta.html#Cygwin|perl5140delta] suggests this collision is the problem , so I'll need to rebase, so I try that with the default [href://http://www.tishler.net/jason/software/rebase/rebase-2.4.2.README|rebase-2.4.2] address <p> <c> perl -pi.orig -e " s{^(LDDLFLAGS = )}{$1 -Wl,--image-base=0x70000000 }; " Makefile </c> <p> and it worked!!!!! <p> *whew* <p> So from time to time I'll have to rebase a few dlls if I stick with this old OS 1003763 1007371 2