Yes, unfortunately, Cocotron only compiles on OS X. However, I borrowed a friend's older MBP for a weekend to get a feel for the system. He already had the Cocotron stack on there. Fun. Fun. Fun. Same friend bought a Western Digital 1Tb drive for $100 and installed it into his MBP. It worked great until that drive went sour. Then, the replacement went sour. Third time's a charm, right? :-D "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty

Don't worry. I just did some more research and found that cross-assembly global references are not supported. I did this through writing MSIL code to consume the global function in another assembly and received a compile error informing me of this issue. For anyone interested, here's the code and command lines: /* File: helloworld.il */ .assembly extern mscorlib {} .assembly helloworld { .ver 1: 0: 0: 0 /* Remove spaces for compilation. They make smilies on CP. */ } .method public static void HelloWorld() { ldstr "Hello World!" call void [mscorlib]System.Console::WriteLine(class System.String) ret } Compile with ilasm /DLL helloworld.il /* File: printer.il */ .assembly extern mscorlib {} .assembly extern helloworld { .ver 1: 0: 0: 0 /* Remove spaces for compilation. They make smilies on CP. */ } .assembly Moo { .ver 1: 0: 0: 0 /* Remove spaces for compilation. They make smilies on CP. */ } .class public auto ansi Program extends [mscorlib]System.Object { .method public hidebysig static void Main() cil managed { .entrypoint call void [helloworld]::HelloWorld() ret } } Compile with ilasm printer.il You will receive something similar to the following error: Microsoft (R) .NET Framework IL Assembler. Version 2.0.50727.3053 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Assembling 'printer.il' to EXE --> 'printer.exe' Source file is ANSI printer.il(17) : error -- Cross-assembly global references are not supported ('HelloWorld') Assembled method Program::Main ***** FAILURE ***** "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty

Vikram Shannon wrote: Christian, you make it sound as if it's forced labor *grin* No, I'm locking the interference OUT, not me IN Vikram Shannon wrote: And I hate metal It's OK, you appear to have good taste in other areas.... :P Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++

I'd love to have some word about it from the editor, P.J. Plauger. I'm pretty sure the reason is poor management. It was why C++ Report died.

<smile>I don't know who you are, but I like your style.</smile> "we must lose precision to make significant statements about complex systems." -deKorvin on uncertainty