Steven Jenkins wrote: > When I try to load the extension, however, I get a "Bad Image" dialog > box that says "The application or DLL [....]\jpl\cradle.so is not a > valid Windows image. Please checdk this against your installation > diskette." I've checked obvious things like permissions, etc. > > As far as I can tell, cradle.so is opaque. I have no idea how to tell > what's wrong with it. Any suggestions? This one turned out to be easy, at least after a night's sleep. setup.rb was truncating the shared object when installing. And indeed, the most recent setup.rb (3.3.1) implements a binread() method that does the right thing. I guess those last 135238 bytes are important. Steve