Danny, > If you had posted this to the mingw list someone might have suggested:
Sorry, cygwin specs file looked like a cygwin problem to me :-) > cp -f /lib/mingw/libmsvcr80.a /tmp/libmsvcrt.a > gcc -mno-cygwin -L/tmp foo.c Thanks for the suggestion. Still involves an extra build step to make sure the copied lib files exist, but much better than editting spec files. Appreciate the help, Hugo ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com -- 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/