Claudio, I tried Cygwin and GCC 3.4.0 and received the same isalnum error. Below are the lines related either to ctype.h or isalnum that I found in main.ii in Cygwin (extern int isalnum (int) throw () was absent). Eljay, My Linux filesystem is case sensitive, Cygwin is not. Did you try make? Did not it give you the 'isalnum' error? Tweaking is not a good solution for me, because the code is rather complicated. I suspect that my problem is related to the problem discussed in the thread (I did not participate in it) http://os2ports.com/pipermail/ux2bs/Week-of-Mon-20030825/001090.html # 1 "/usr/include/ctype.h" 1 3 4 extern "C" { int __attribute__((__cdecl__)) isalnum (int __c); } # 50 "/usr/include/c++/3.3.1/cctype" 2 3 # 66 "/usr/include/c++/3.3.1/cctype" 3 namespace std { using ::isalnum; } # 49 "/usr/include/c++/3.3.1/bits/localefwd.h" 2 3 namespace std { class locale; template<typename _CharT> inline bool isalnum(_CharT, const locale&); # 1892 "/usr/include/c++/3.3.1/bits/locale_facets.h" 2 3 template<typename _CharT> inline bool isalnum(_CharT __c, const locale& __loc) { return use_facet<ctype<_CharT> >(__loc).is(ctype_base::alnum, __c); } Sincerely, Nikolai