Hi,

Thanks for all your help, I now have things compiling. There were two issues, libtool was indeed telling gcc to produce shared libraries, and the --disable-shared flag is required when calling configure.

The second one was my stupidity. The error was complaining about shared libraries in /usr/lib, not /usr/local/lib, which is where I was installing to. /usr/lib was from one of my failed attempts to use a maildrop-devel RPM. Sorry about that, should have spotted it sooner.

It still needed a little tweaking, the full procedure is below. Is this worth putting in the FAQ for CentOS/RedHat distributions? If so, do you want me to check it out on my Ubuntu distro too?

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/courier/maildrop-2.0.3.tar.bz2 bunzip2 maildrop-2.0.3.tar.bz2 tar -xvf maildrop-2.0.3.tar cd maildrop-2.0.3 ./configure --with-devel --disable-shared make make install-strip make install-man cp rfc2045/rfc2045_config.h /usr/local/include vi /usr/local/include/rfc2045.h < #include "../rfc2045/rfc2045_config.h" /* VPATH build */

Write some basic code (mdtest.c): #include <stdio.h> #include <rfc822.h> #include <rfc2047.h> #include <rfc2045.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv) { printf("Hello World!\n");

}

Compile: $ gcc -o mdtest -lrfc822 -lrfc2045 mdtest.c $ ./mdtest Hello World!

Start writing mail handling code......

Thanks again

Dave