Hi all, This is the issue I've been dealing with for the past couple of hours. I am using mostly vanilla Mdk 9.0. I am trying to compile Gem from source (for Pd), and while it does compile without any problems at runtime (pd -lib Gem) I get the following issue: /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem.pd_linux: /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem.pd_linux: undefined symbol: __ctype_toupper_loc /usr/lib/pd/extra/Gem: can't load library I've tracked this one to the gcc library (please correct me if I am wrong). However, there are no errors at compile time: g++ -o Gem.pd_linux -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L../../../GemLibs/liborb ../Manips/*.o ../Particles/*.o ../Base/*.o ../MarkEx/*.o ../Pixes/*.o ../Controls/*.o ../Nongeos/*.o ../Geos/*.o ../openGL/*.o -shared -lquicktime -lmpeg3 -lorb -lglib -lgltt -lttf -ljpeg -ltiff -lpng -lglut -lGLU -lGL -lz -lm -Wl,-shared -Wl,-export-dynamic -lXxf86vm -lXext -lX11 I also tried adding all over the place -lgcc like this: g++ -o Gem.pd_linux -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L../../../GemLibs/liborb ../Manips/*.o ../Particles/*.o ../Base/*.o ../MarkEx/*.o ../Pixes/*.o ../Controls/*.o ../Nongeos/*.o ../Geos/*.o ../openGL/*.o -shared -lgcc -lquicktime -lmpeg3 -lorb -lglib -lgltt -lttf -ljpeg -ltiff -lpng -lglut -lGLU -lGL -lz -lm -Wl,-shared -lgcc -Wl,-export-dynamic -lgcc -lXxf86vm -lXext -lX11 and the compile is successful, but I still keep getting the same error. I tried building the static version, but then I get the following error: g++ -o Gem.pd_linux -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L../../../GemLibs/liborb ../Manips/*.o ../Particles/*.o ../Base/*.o ../MarkEx/*.o ../Pixes/*.o ../Controls/*.o ../Nongeos/*.o ../Geos/*.o ../openGL/*.o -shared -lquicktime -lmpeg3 -lorb -lglib -lgltt -lttf -ljpeg -ltiff -lpng -lglut -lGLU -lGL -Wl,-Bstatic -lz -lm -Wl,-shared -Wl,-export-dynamic -lXxf86vm -lXext -lX11 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgcc_s collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [Gem.pd_linux] Error 1 I then checked ld -lgcc_s And the only thing I got was: ld: warning: cannot find entry symbol _start; not setting start address Now, could someone please tell me what the heck does this mean??? ldd /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so gives: libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x4001a000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000) At this point, I am confused and do not know what to do. I tried upgrading ldconfig, ld, and am currently recompiling gcc from a cooker source (which is taking a lot of time). So, I would greatly appreciate any help I can get on this issue, since the whole idea of linking is not so clear to me. Finally, I would appreciate the explanation of -Bstatic flag which seems to invoke -lgcc_s that is subsequently not found for whatever reason, despite the fact the ld otherwise finds it (with the aforementioned warning though). Any help on this issue is greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Ico