arrgh. how do you guys do all that stuff without becoming crazy??? i'm about to jump out of the window... anyways. i installed git and did the patching thing: Code: whizer@whizer-laptop:~/wine-git$ patch -p1 < patch.diff patching file dlls/iphlpapi/iphlpapi.spec patch: **** malformed patch at line 6: @ stub GetIpNetTableFromStack i did compile it anyways, didn't use anything. greetz whizer.