Success! I now have all the plugins, including the perl plugins, and the modules, correctly loading and (apparently) working. Thanks to all who gave me pointers. I put 2 binary packages on the AIX freeware and shareware archive, on www-frec.bull.com, one for the basic gimp and the compiled plugins, one for the perl module and plugins. I included in the packages the scripts I used to link the libraries and the perl shared-objects, but don't ask me why it suddenly started working. I've being going round and round with the AIX linker, I can't think straight any more. But the scripts should allow the feat to be re-produced (with the next versions). Is it normal that after reading the plugins, it displays "extension_script_fu" for 3 or 4 seconds? I've become suspicious when it does things slowly. Still, I can see "script-fu" all over the place in the menus, it does seem to be working. Thanks again, Ciaran +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Ciaran Deignan Tel: (France) 04 76 29 79 92 BULL XS-BU (http://www-frec.bull.com) HA and Consolidation Mail to: Ciaran.Deignan@xxxxxxxx Bullcom: 229 79 92 PGP: B1 78 FB 88 FD 86 58 A8 89 7B 22 8C D0 E8 71 FC Fax: 229 75 18 +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+