I needed the following patch to get it to build under mswindows: cvs server: Diffing lib-src Index: lib-src/gnuclient.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/lib-src/gnuclient.c,v retrieving revision 1.17.2.12.4.2 diff -u -r1.17.2.12.4.2 gnuclient.c --- gnuclient.c 2001/02/17 04:39:44 1.17.2.12.4.2 +++ gnuclient.c 2001/03/01 22:16:59 ＠＠ -641,13 +641,15 ＠＠ } else /* !suppress_windows_system */ { + if (0) + ; #ifdef HAVE_X_WINDOWS - if (display) + else if (display) sprintf (command, "(gnuserv-edit-files '(x %s) '(", clean_string (display)); #endif #ifdef HAVE_GTK - if (display) + else if (display) strcpy (command, "(gnuserv-edit-files '(gtk nil) '("); #endif #ifdef HAVE_MS_WINDOWS I also see the looping problem in compiling auto-autoloads.el but I don't think this is gtk specific. Debugging gave me a SIGSEGV but no useful stacktrace. This is cygwin andy