Another source for a free Windows C++ compiler is www.bloodshed.net . What you get from them is really gcc for Windows, but it's all wrapped up in a very nice GUI. Whether it works with PL/SQL native compilation is something I can't tell you, because I don't know. Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxx Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. To join, visit http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, or send email to Oracle-article-request@xxxxxxxxxxx and include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. Thursday, December 16, 2004, 7:30:09 PM, Larry Elkins (elkinsl@xxxxxxxxx) wrote: LE> Juan, LE> Have you tried it in conjunction with Native Compilation? Some of the LE> material I came across, UNIX specific, talked about how some compilers LE> worked and some didn't. I will probably download it and give it a shot, but LE> I was hoping to find someone that has successfully used a specific LE> compiler -- may save me a lot of headaches in trying various ones. LE> Regards, LE> Larry G. Elkins LE> elkinsl@xxxxxxxxx LE> 214.954.1781 >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco [mailto:jreyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >> Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 5:39 PM >> To: elkinsl@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: PL/SQL - Native Compilation - C Compilers >> >> >> There was a free one from borland, I downloaded I think you can >> find it, if >> you can't I can send you if I found it. >> >> Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco >> OCP LE> -- LE> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l