I'm not sure what to do with these patches, since it looks as if these won't apply to the unreleased portablexdr 4.9.2. This library is obsolete, since the original SunRPC code was relicensed and can now be used directly by any project that needs it. It's unfortunate there is no XDR code for mingw except for PortableXDR ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 100 libraries supported. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW