I have got to a similar problem with Cygwin having same symptoms. I have found that there was a reported problem with a strings in libstdc++.la, if your application is using dlls. It is really awfull bug to identify...
See this links for details: http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg01352.html http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24196 I got around by compiling gcc-4.0.2 with extra flag --enable-fully-dynamic-string and I will later use a new string implementation that should come with gcc-4.1. PV ---------------------------------------------------- Sent through the University of Leoben webmail system -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/