as the subject, btw these kind of patches should go to cygwin list? http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer/patches/xx_netdb_mingw.diff Bye -- Gianluigi Tiesi <sherpya at netfarm.it> EDP Project Leader Netfarm S.r.l. - http://www.netfarm.it/ Free Software: http://oss.netfarm.it/