: Can't really help much unless you can include a copy of the error output in : you mail. I remember Greg reporting a problem caused by a recent version : of ar no longer being able to cope with minix format .o files, A working /usr/bin/ar can be downloaded from my microwindows site This will be fixed in the next release of dev86, as I've ported a special ar86 that will be used with the *86 tools, and ultimately run on the target machine, and given all this to Rob. and : I believe there may be some glibc issues with it, but can't remember what. The potential glibc 6 issue is that no static initializations of FILE * xx = stdin work, these must be moved to main() Greg