Hi I tried compiling xemacs-21.2.35 with the latest cygwin-1.1.4. Everything makes OOTB except when trying to link with libcompface. This used to work with cygwin-B20.1 and XEmacs 21.1 "20 Minutes to Nikko". Here is the problem: Dumping under the name xemacs .data and .bss reversed found bss - keeping 3981c of 3f400 bytes found data - keeping 2c2e20 of 2d3200 bytes writing file header writing optional header new data size is 313e00, >= 312600 writing text header (unchanged) writing .data header writing following data header copying executable up to data section ... 2e7170 bytes dumping .data section... 2c2e20 bytes padding .data ... c00 bytes dumping .bss into executable... 3981c bytes padding .bss ... 67e4 bytes 0 [main] temacs 10807 handle_exceptions: Exception: STATUS_ACCESS_VIOLATION 63488 [main] temacs 10807 stackdump: Dumping stack trace to temacs.exe.stackdump Signal 11 make[2]: [xemacs] Error 139 (ignored) Ciao Volker