>1) In my development setup, I've got libappserver building as a >static >library ATM and linking it into the app_server and Appearance >2) FontServer.h/cpp declares a global FontServer *fontserver >3) Appearance allocates an object to it. >4) Appearance loads a decorator >5) Decorator references the fontserver object (as defined in >libappserver) and segfaults Well, first of all, I don't think you should do that. FontServer is a server object afterall, and it's even a private class (at least, from what I understand looking at the code/headers). So why not use BFont, which is the libbe class which interfaces with the font server ? Is there any reason why BFont isn't enough for you? Stefano Ceccherini aka Jack Burton --------------------------------------------------------------- Scegli il tuo dominio preferito e attiva la tua email! Da oggi l'eMail di superEva e' ancora piu' veloce e ricca di funzioni! http://webmail.supereva.it/new/ ---------------------------------------------------------------