On Jan 3, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Luis Lavena wrote: > On *nix, all the binaries must be compiled and linked to the same > version of the C runtime. Yep. My point wasn't that Unix was different in this regard but that there is generally only one *style* of C runtime because there is generally only a single prevailing compiler/build/tool on any particular *nix platform. There is a multiplicative factor in the Windows context that doesn't exist in the Unix context. Gary Wright