> So: the question if i can compile from within windows still remains > on. (so > what i would like is a set of tools to compile the system with, ports > of > the BeOS tools) for example Minix has such a 'tool box' and 'NewOS' > on > which we are building ... I remember, someone said (IIRC on the kernel team list), he managed to build the kernel under Windows, though that would require an adjusted version of jam. For the other parts I suspect it would be lots of work. And because your situation is sort of strange (compiling under Windows, but running under BeOS), I also suspect, that noone has done that before. CU, Ingo