Hi all, The makedef.pl has: > unless ($define{'PERL_OLD_COPY_ON_WRITE'} > || $define{'PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE'}) { > ++$skip{Perl_sv_setsv_cow}; > } A look in perl.h shows PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE as the default, but can see no way to pass that to makedef.pl so it will obligingly add the sym Perl_sv_setsv_cow to the exports list. It could be added to either the compiler flags or config.h but a guess is not very useful. Thx, Norm