Nathan Thatcher wrote: > So what options does that leave all of us who need to compile and run > our custom C functions in Windows? Debug further :-) Because it's certainly possible to do it. IIRC, PostGIS for 8.3 is build with MingW and it works fine. And other extensions are known working when built with MSVC Express. So it should work in principle, we just need to figure out exactly what the issue is in this specific case. I'm still thinking gettext could be the issue here. //Magnus