rebuild requires libgc and pthreads. libgc is portable and available at: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ pthreads should be a component of all UNIX-alikes. A version of pthreads for Windows exists: http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/ On Windows you will need to specify the library name of pthreads-win32, e.g. make THREADS=-lpthread