Right after taking a look at the links you provided I've been fiddling around with my makefile trying to compile my test code and I'm getting "recipe failed" errors, I'm hoping you or someone else can explain where I'm going wrong with the GCC options, here is the output line: E:/PortableApps/Codit/coditui/../../CodeBlocks/MinGW/bin/mingw32-gcc.exe -mwin32 -mwindows -D _DEBUG -I E:/PortableApps/Codit/coditui/../urs/include -I E:/PortableApps/Codit/coditui/../iup/include -fhosted -m32 -std=c99 -Wall -c main.c -- View this message in context: http://gcc.1065356.n5.nabble.com/Makefile-issues-tp1202209p1204234.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.