diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index ca75197..9515774 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+# Next
+
+* Included C error message when reporting PJRT plugin failures.
+
 # v0.4.0 - 2024-09-23
 
 * Binary distributed compiled in Ubuntu 24.04 (glibc 2.38), updated dependencies on the C library. This may cause issues in older distributions.
diff --git a/pjrt/dynamiclib_dlopen.go b/pjrt/dynamiclib_dlopen.go
index fa0bc53..19c52bb 100644
--- a/pjrt/dynamiclib_dlopen.go
+++ b/pjrt/dynamiclib_dlopen.go
@@ -131,7 +131,8 @@ func loadPlugin(pluginPath string) (handleWrapper dllHandleWrapper, err error) {
 	handle := C.dlopen(nameC, C.RTLD_LAZY)
 	cFree(nameC)
 	if handle == nil {
-		err = errors.Errorf("failed to dynamically load PJRT plugin from %q: check with `ldd %s`, maybe there are missing required libraries.", pluginPath, pluginPath)
+		msg := C.GoString(C.dlerror())
+		err = errors.Errorf("failed to dynamically load PJRT plugin from %q: %q -- check with `ldd %s` in case there are missing required libraries.", msg, pluginPath, pluginPath)
 		klog.Warningf("%v", err)
 		return
 	}