Hi there, as a personal excercise I'd like to write a native little ruby starter (with splashscreen) for my scripts. In VS.NET I created a Starter.cpp and included the "ruby.h" as mentioned in the docs. At compilation he doesn't find the extern symbols for _rb_init() etc. My guess was to link to some DLL stuff, but after a time googeling I hope that someone here can point me on some docs for further help. Thanks a lot. -- Daniel Vöěkerts Protected by Anti Pesto.