please note: the crash occurs very early when running the dumped executable. it occurs in CHECK_SYMBOL (alias) in Fdefine_coding_system_alias(), called from determine_if_using_unicode(), from init_intl_win32(), called early at startup. the value of the variable appears to be garbage. in fact, all dumped variables appear to have garbage values. stop at the first line of code, e.g., and you'll see that noninteractive has some large, garbage value instead of something like 0 or 1. perhaps the crash is occurring at the first point that XEmacs does an indirect memory access through any value that should have been remembered across the dumping probcess. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Wing" <ben(a)666.com&gt; To: "XEmacs beta list" <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org>; <xemacs-winnt(a)xemacs.org&gt; Cc: <sos(a)prospect.com.ru&gt; Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:30 AM Subject: unable to build cygwin, traditional dumping + sysmalloc (+ others?) Cygwin. only