Hi kyle and chromatic,

yes, on a web server, the quotation mark is a typo in the post and yes I use strict and warnings.

while trying to write a minimal code it appears that even this doesn't work

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
my $is_Magick = 0;

eval "require Image::Magick";

if ($@) {
  # problems with GD, fall back to non-GD
} else {
  # we have GD, go for it!
  $is_Magick = 1;
}

print "Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1\n\n";

print $is_Magick;
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without IM it prints 0, with IM, well :

[Mon Nov 03 23:21:35 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Deep recursion o
+n subroutine "Image::Magick::AUTOLOAD" at\r
[Mon Nov 03 23:21:35 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] \tC:/usr/site/li
+b/Image/Magick.pm line 42 (#1)\r
[Mon Nov 03 23:21:35 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     (W recursion
+) This subroutine has called itself (directly or indirectly)\r
[Mon Nov 03 23:21:35 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     100 times mo
+re than it has returned.  This probably indicates an\r
[Mon Nov 03 23:21:35 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     infinite rec
+ursion, unless you're writing strange benchmark programs, in\r
[Mon Nov 03 23:21:35 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     which case i
+t indicates something else.\r
[Mon Nov 03 23:21:35 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1]     \r
[Mon Nov 03 23:21:35 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Out of memory!
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Thanks.