Installation To install this package, go through the well known 3-step build process: ./configure make make install For the various options that you can pass to ./configure please do ./configure --help Tested platforms CPU Operating System Compiler i386 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 GCC 2.95 GCC 3.2 Intel C++ 7.0 i386 Windos XP (cygwin) GCC 2.95 GCC 3.2 i386 Windos XP Visual C++ 6.0 i386 Windos XP Visual C++ 6.0 Microsoft Visual C++ To install using Microsoft Visual C++TM, you can do it two ways: under CygWin or from Microsoft Visual StudioTM (currently not supported). I heartly recommend the Cygwin approach, as it will install everything for you. Cygwin: In a bash shell do ./configure CC=`pwd`/ide/cl \ CXX=`pwd`/ide/cl \ CXXFLAGS="-GX" \ CPPFLAGS="-D__WINDOWS__ -D__STDC__ -DR_OK=04" ide/cl is a wrapper script around the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler cl.exe. The reason d'etre of this wrapper is that I use .cc to denote source files, so I need to pass the option -Tp for each source file. CXXFLAGS="-GX" is to turn on exception handling in Microsoft Visual C++ CPPFLAGS="-D__WINDOWS__ -D__STDC__ -DR_OK=04" is to give some definitions we need for the nested library libltdl. For some reason Microsoft Visual C++ does not define __WINDOWS__ or similar, and likewise for __STDC__. R_OK is because the Microsoft system header file for access does not define symbolic names for the various flags one can pass to access Microsoft Visual StudioTM: You can either open the workspace file ide\ltmm.dsw from the GUI, or in a command prompt run MSDEV ide\ltmm.dsw /MAKE Note, that Microsoft Visual C++, version 6 and earlier does not fully support template member functions of template classes, so the member function ltmm::loader<ThreadPolicy>::foreach_handle isn't defined on that platform.