With this patch I was able to compile dired.c. However, filelock.c does not build under WindowsNT4sp3 with MSDS C++ 5.0. I can't find anything suspicious in src/ChangeLog. Regards, Adrian Index: dired.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-20/src/dired.c,v retrieving revision 1.18.2.4 diff -u -r1.18.2.4 dired.c --- dired.c 1998/11/28 10:28:41 1.18.2.4 +++ dired.c 1998/11/29 21:22:17 ＠＠ -949,6 +949,7 ＠＠ DEFSUBR (Ffile_attributes); } +#ifndef WINDOWSNT void vars_of_dired (void) { ＠＠ -965,3 +966,4 ＠＠ user_cache_len = 0; user_cache_max = 0; } +#endif OS: Windows_NT XEmacs 21.2-b4 \"Aglaophonos\" configured for `i386-pc-win32'. Where should the build process find the source code? c:\\export\\home\\tmp\\xemacs-20\\nt What compiler should XEmacs be built with? ＠cl -nologo What window system should XEmacs use? MS Windows \s-+.+\)*\|^Note:" cd c:\export\home\tmp\xemacs-20\nt\ nmake -f xemacs.mak PACKAGEPATH="c:\\Program Files\\XEmacs\\xemacs-packages" HAVE_MSW=1 HAVE_NATIVE_SOUND=1 HAVE_XPM=1 XPM_DIR="c:\export\home\tmp\xpm-3.4k" HAVE_PNG=1 PNG_DIR="c:\export\home\tmp\libpng-1.0.2" HAVE_TIFF=1 TIFF_DIR="c:\export\home\tmp\tiff-v3.4" HAVE_JPEG=1 JPEG_DIR="c:\export\home\tmp\jpeg-6b" ZLIB_DIR="c:\export\home\tmp\zlib" DEBUG_XEMACS=0 all Compilation started at Sun Nov 29 14:51:32 1998 Compiling in support for native GUI. Compiling in support for XPM images. Compiling in support for GIF images. Compiling in support for PNG images. Compiling in support for TIFF images. Compiling in support for JPEG images. Compiling in support for toolbars. Compiling in support for dialogs. Compiling in support for native sounds. Compiling in fast dired implementation. ..\src\filelock.c(142) : warning C4013: 'symlink' undefined; assuming extern returning int ..\src\filelock.c(174) : warning C4013: 'readlink' undefined; assuming extern returning int ..\src\filelock.c(249) : warning C4101: 'p' : unreferenced local variable ..\src\filelock.c(249) : warning C4101: 'o' : unreferenced local variable emacs.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _vars_of_dired filelock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _symlink filelock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _rindex filelock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _index filelock.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol _readlink ..\src\temacs.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 5 unresolved externals NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'link.exe' : return code '0x19' Compilation exited abnormally with code 2 at Sun Nov 29 14:52:22 -- Adrian Aichner European Design Center Teradyne GmbH Semiconductor Test Group Telephone +49/89/41861(0)-208 Dingolfinger Strasse 2 Fax +49/89/41861-217 (What is a Fax?) D-81673 MUENCHEN E-mail adrian.aichner(a)teradyne.com