You might try to build a "-static" executable. I don't know what this means on MS Win but -static executables don't use dynamic linking. See the documentation of gcc -static (or -Bstatic ?) flags and study your ld documentation too (ld is part of binutils !). bye ingo Am Freitag, 6. Januar 2006 22:54 schrieb Gavin Lowry: > Help! > > I want to create an executable that requires no dll files to run. Is there > a command-line option that incorporates everything that's needed into the > .exe file? > > Gavin