G> XEmacs 21.5-b27 builds using VS2005Express( and MS Platform SDK G> ) with some modifications, and runs good so far. Great! Thanks for the report. I don't do Windows myself, but I suspect that the changes you've made are not going to be acceptable for distribution purposes. Do you know of any macros specific to VC2005Express that we could use to conditionalize your changes? ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1. The modifications are: in src/dumper.c at line 2185 //retry_close (pdump_fd); <== comment out this line 2. To build debug version(DEBUG_XEMACS=1 in config.inc), following modifications are also needed. in lib-src/make-docfile.c at line 224,309,314 replace all READ_TEXT with "r". because this conflicts with line 173 #ifdef WIN32_NATIVE _fmode = O_BINARY; _setmode (fileno (stdout), O_BINARY); #endif /* WIN32_NATIVE */ in nt/xemacs.mak at line 676 DEBUG_FLAG_COMPILE_DEBUG=-Od #-RTC1 <== replace -RTC1 with -Od because -RTC1 option causes exception at function 'run_in_other_process' in src/process-nt.c. (I don't understand exactly what's going on.) [log omitted] -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.