I've now managed to build gds32.dll and the NT server .exe!
OK, it's not working very well, upon connect it never responds and it chews
a couple of houndred megs of memory befor I have to kill it, but at least it
starts! :-)

Now for the interesting questions:
I'm not really familiar with IB, and Ann explained that gpre is used to
generate "largely system independent" code. As I understand it, but I
definitely could be wrong due to ignorance in this case, the (only?) reason
gpre needs access to a (a specific?) already generated DB, at least when
building IB itself, is due to the fact that it needs to know the on-disk
format of the database for the specific platform.

If this is the case, wouldn't it be easier to put this on-disk-format into
platform specific directories/header/libraries to drop the dependency on an
already running DB when building IB?

/Mike