sturlamolden wrote: > edit the text file "c:\mingw\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.2.4\specs" > and change "-lmsvcrt" to "-lmsvcr71". Thank you very much sturlamolden, This procedure should be added to the "step-by-step" guide (see 1st message of this thread) as "step A.5". For ignorant people like me, CRT = "C runtime library".