> Well, then. Give 'winetricks vc2005trial' a spin. That will > get you 2005 full installed. I'm interested in what > happens after that. > I will try that as soon as I can. I am building windows GUI medical imaging applications with Qt, VTK, ITK, boost and several other libraries. Before everyone says I can do this using native linux the problem is some of in house libraries I need to use do not compile or execute under gcc. Also the target platform is windows. I have CMake for the project generation so that the compiler version is not that important. I would have to get several large libraries and tools built in the environment to be able to use wine. -- John M. Drescher