Thanks for your help Igor. Actually I found the answer by googling for "___RUNTIME_PSEUDO_RELOC_LIST__". Someone had that problem fixed by upgrading to the latest binutils.
I checked and my binutils was a 2002<something> version while there is a 2004... one available. What I can't understand is how an old 2002 version of binutils ended up on my system. I installed from scratch over the internet just before christmas umm.. maybe six weeks ago or so and I assumed I got the latest version of everything. I must have assumed wrong !?. (unless the subsequent kde installation set it back ??) I upgraded binutils to the 2004 version with setup and ext.c now compiles. I still get the "incompatible pointer type" warnings at the compilation stage but it links and creates the .dll with no complaints and the application starts up. It does seem to behave funny, refusing to enter certain directories, but that I'll have to investigate separately. Thanks again. CV -- 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/
