X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f X-Recipient: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 05:28:55 -0500 (EST) From: Jude DaShiell To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: errors using C++ libraries In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk It's entirely probable MacCaffee or spysweeper trashed something on your system. I've worked over at Smartco.org for long enough to have heard accounts of such things happening from the technicians that straighten out computers coming in for repair. A couple questions. Do you have more than one computer you can use or removeable hard drives? There are sleds for hard drives that can be installed in computers and locked in the frames so they can be used. If either of these is a possibility and you learned how to use dos and dos doesn't scare you, you might set up another hard drive with djgpp and dos on it or set up another computer with both on it and install everything new and load your program on by floppy or other removeable media then try another build cycle and see what happens on a known clean system. I wouldn't install any of the spyblaster or MacCaffee stuff since you suspect one or both for now. If the program is needing to connect to the network you're going to need a second clean machine and a serial cable to another computer neither of which has any way to connect to the internet in order to test it and be sure. Failing this, I suspect you'll be shooting in the dark for some time. It's possible both suspicious programs have logs you can review which may have your library files named in them. That's why I like to have programs like this quarrantine files rather than attempt to fix them because that way it's a middle ground between fixing and removal and so long as you know your quarrantine path or paths you can check things out. Wish I could help more.