Iulian wrote: > When I link the Visual C++ 6.0 libs in gcc, I received the warnings: > .drctve not recognized. > > I earlier posted some messages in this list on this item and ...no answer. Then we don't have the expertise. We can only help with what we know. If you're very lucky you'll pique someone's curiousity and they'll go investigate it for you but that's the exception not the rule. In any case, this might be a binutils problem not a GCC problem. You might do better posting on one of the MinGW mailing lists: http://www.mingw.org/lists.shtml Good luck, Rup.