If you could send the error messages you get when you try to build liblouisxml to the list someone might figure out what is going on. If you have the time to revise the file README-win32 in the liblouisxml distribution to show what you are now doing that would help to. You can send it as an attachment and I'll commit it. Thanks, John -- John J. boyer; President, Chief Software Developer Abilitiessoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.com Madison, Wisconsin USA Developing software for people with disabilities For a description of the software and to download it go to http://www.jjb-software.com