> In particular, the "msoft.mak" file refers to a /FD option that does >not exist on Microsoft Visual C++ "cl" compiler. > > I believe the person may be refering to the /LD flag instead. Hi Nicholas: This appears to be true, thanks for pointing it out. When I built the libary, this error didnt seem to affect anything in that the tests were all successful. Did you have trouble with that option being present and/or the /LD option not being present? Regards, John Caron