I've been searching for documentation about how to actually compile a plug in, but all I could find was how to write the code... I tried compiling it like this, gcc -c myplug.c ld -G -o myplug.o but when gimp tries to load it from my ~/.gimp-1.1 (I use gimp-1.1.8) it gives a warning that the plugin has crashed. I'm pretty sure the problem is the way I compile it, because it's with all the plugin code I try, not just my hello world plugin :) if anybody could help out I'd greatly appreciate it. Willem -- wrvh@xxxxxxxxx | http://www.xs4all.nl/~wrvh wrvhage@xxxxxxxxxxx | http://gene.wins.uva.nl/~wrvhage