I have exactly the same error on my debian lenny amd64 machine. Other stuff (e.g. pidgin or alsa-drivers) was configured and compiled without errors, but wine can't detect freetype properly... here's the part of my config.log where configure seems to run into problems: Code: configure:13834: gcc -m32 -o conftest -g -O2 conftest.c -lfreetype -lfreetype -lz >&5 /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.1/../../../libz.so when searching for -lz /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.3.1/../../../libz.a when searching for -lz /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libz.so when searching for -lz /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libz.a when searching for -lz /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.so when searching for -lz /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libz.a when searching for -lz /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lz collect2: ld returned 1 exit status configure:13840: $? = 1 Code: freetype-config --libs gives me: Code: -lfreetype -lz wine 1.0.0 from the debian lenny repositories runs fine, but a program that worked with wine 1.1.1 (on another computer with mepis 7 (32bit)) doesn't work with version 1.0.0, so i need to build&install wine from source...