Hi, Per bugs and caveats, I am enclosing my report: WinNT4 SP5, and perl -v PERL -V won't work yet, as the error came during dmake test. The error is: gcc -c -g -O2 -DWIN32 -fno-strict-aliasing -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX -g -O2 ERSION=\"1.72\" -I..\..\lib\CORE Socket.c Socket.c: In function `boot_Socket': Socket.c:1224: incompatible type for argument 1 of `strcmp' dmake.exe: Error code 1, while making 'Socket.o' dmake.exe: Error code 255, while making '..\lib\auto\Socket\Socket.dll' That's all. It said to report it so I did. I am now going to search the web and see what what I can turn up on this error. Bruce MeyerThread Next