I've got a project were the .c file has '#include <Carbon.h>' and the .make file links to the 'CarbonLib' stub. compiles fine, but when run dies with 'The application "sealfinsApp" could not be opened because ">>CarbonLib<<" could not start up.'

any suggestions?

You should use something like extension manager on the apple menu (don't remember exactly) check CarbonLib (to activate it on the next boot) among all the other libs and then reboot Mac OS 9. Voila!

um, I'm not quite that bad at coding I'm pretty sure there's a lost stub somewhere, there are no compile-time errors, just dies with run-time errors.

[update] fixed; long-lost-evil-assembly code is all I'll say...