Christopher, > There are cygwin ports of RPM available also, FWIW. That's good to know, thanks. Do you have a link? > Alwo, FWIW, a few people have done the cygwin->mingw cross compiler thing. IIRC, there is a glibc patch required because glibc has a couple of files whose names differ only by case. However, these days, cygwin has the ability to deal with that with the 'mount -o managed' option which allows you to mount an empty directory and populate it with files that differ by case or which contain non-windows friendly characters like ':' or create filenames like 'aux', or 'com1'. Can you give me more detail on this--where I can find the patch, and how I use this cygwin option? - Sheryl