Hi again, with my question 3) in my last post I think I answered my own question of course generating a new one. I made the directory maptools in /src/library and put the proper directories source and everything then from /src/gnuwin32 BASH$ make pkg-maptools ....... ------- Building maptools.dll from maptools.a -------- echo LIBRARY maptools > maptools.def echo EXPORTS >> maptools.def nm maptools.a > Defs sed -n "/^........ [BCDRT] _/s/^........ [BCDRT] _/ /p" Defs >> maptools.def gcc -mno-cygwin -mdll -Wl,--base-file,maptools.b -s -o maptools.dll maptools.a -L../../../gnuwin32 -lg2c.mingw32 -lR /CYGNUS/CYGWIN~1/H-I586~1/i586-cygwin32/bin/ld: cannot open -lg2c.mingw32: No such file or directory collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [maptools.dll] Error 1 make[1]: *** [src/maptools.dll] Error 2 make: *** [pkg-maptools] Error 2 do i need to install -lg2c.mingw32 ? I am running Cygwin 20.1b on Windows 98 Nicholas -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._