I might have solved this by adding -mno-cygwin, -mwin32 and -mwindows to the linker flags too. It doesn't run (eats up all CPU power instead), but at least it compiles. /Marco -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/