Problem with Compress:Zlib

If I run the following code:

use Prima;
use Compress::Zlib;

then no problem. However, if I run

use Compress::Zlib;
use Prima;

then I get an error message - Can't locate ordinal 10 in compress.zlib.

This is on Win2k (haven't tested it on any other machine yet - I also have
RedHat8 machine and an old Win95 machine I can try this on.

It looks like a Windows error message (i.e., comes up in an Windows message
box) rather than a Perl error message.

I've done some tracing with the debugger and it happens in
DynaLoader::dl_load_file while it's loading Prima. Why at this point, when
Compress::Zlib has already been loaded, is it looking for something in
zlib.dll?

Anyway, the surface fix is really easy - use Prima first. But I'm trying to
use PAR to make an executable, and PAR loads Compress::Zlib automatically,
before it even reads your script. (It has to, since it creates the
executable by appending compressed files onto the end of a pre-existing
executable - read the PAR docs for more details.)

Anyway, I can't step through the execution of dl_load_file with the perl
debugger, because it's an XS sub, so someone with a C++ compiler is going to
need to check this out..

Sean

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Received on Wed 13 Aug 2003 - 15:24:47 CEST