hi, recently a patch was supplied and applied for odbc32.lib being linked into parrot.
This file is not needed for Parrot, but it seems it is still linked (at least, here on my machine, winxp). \parrot\library\PAST-pm.pbc C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -e "chdir shift @ARGV;system 'nmake', '-nologo', @A RGV; exit $? >> 8;" compilers\json link -out:.\pbc_merge.exe src\pbc_merge.obj src\parrot_config.obj lib parrot.lib oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.libcomdlg32 .lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib netapi32.lib uuid.libws2_3 2.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.lib -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -machine:x86 -debug Check the second last line... Should it be there? kjs