Hello, Some people reading this list might be interested in the version of the iostream/stdc++ library that I have compiled with Mingw32. This should make it possible for you to write programs which use iostreams or other features of the standard C++ library (including STL) without dependencies on the cygwin libraries. Downloads are available from my homepage at either http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/gcc-extra.html or http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc-extra.html Note that rebuilding from the source requires a small change to the current Mingw32 header files, which should be present in release 0.1.4 (which I hope to make available soon). Use and enjoy, Colin. -- Colin Peters - colin@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp -- Saga University Dept. of Information Science -- http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/index.html -- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/6162/ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".