I finally tracked down why Cygwin has been failing with the Embed test. It seems that the attached patch will fix the problem. It turns out that Cygwin cannot link directly to libperl5_7_2.dll so the test made a copy of it as libperl.dll, but in the t/ directory (hence the -L.. couldn't find it). John -- John Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 301-429-5747Thread Next