> Do anybody know which are the (dis)advantages of PE-files > and the (dis)advantages of ELF-files? This was extensively debated on the original BeDevTalk lists. I don't know if the archives for that list are still available. After R3 came out with a PE compiler (the same format that Windows uses), many developers requested that Be switch to the ELF format and consequently, the gcc compiler. They finally gave in ;-) I think there is an old Be newsletter about this debate and the decision. The PPC version of BeOS does not use the PE format, though, but PEF. This is a proprietary format from Apple, or at least it used to be (they may have opened it up since then, I don't know). -Matthijs