With a bit of hacking in the C compiler, and doing a variety of --enable-shared vs --disabled-shared I am able to come up to this point: iPod-van-Stefan-de-Konink:/Applications/MonetDB.app/bin root# ./mserver5 !ERROR: BBPdiskscan: stat(bat/)!OS: No such file or directory !ERROR: BBPdiskscan: stat(bat/)!OS: No such file or directory !ERROR: BBPdiskscan: stat(bat/)!OS: No such file or directory # MonetDB server v5.11.0, based on kernel v1.29.0 # Serving database 'demo', using 1 thread # Compiled for arm-apple-darwin/32bit with 32bit OIDs dynamically linked # Copyright (c) 1993-July 2008 CWI. # Copyright (c) August 2008-2009 MonetDB B.V., all rights reserved # Visit http://monetdb.cwi.nl/ for further information #warning: please don't forget to set your vault key! #(see /Applications/MonetDB.app/etc/monetdb5.conf) !ERROR: GDKremovedir: rmdir(bat/DELETE_ME) failed. !OS: Directory not empty !ERROR: GDKremovedir: rmdir(bat/DELETE_ME) failed. !OS: Directory not empty !ERROR: BBPsync: rename(bat/BACKUP/SUBCOMMIT,bat/DELETE_ME) failed. #WARNING: LoaderException:loadLibrary:mmath: loader error dlopen(/Applications/MonetDB.app/lib/MonetDB5/lib/lib_mmath.dylib, 10): Symbol not found: ___fpclassifyd Referenced from: /Applications/MonetDB.app/lib/MonetDB5/lib/lib_mmath.dylib Expected in: flat namespace #WARNING: LoaderException:loadLibrary:optimizer: file not found #WARNING: LoaderException:loadLibrary:run_isolate: file not found #WARNING: LoaderException:loadLibrary:run_memo: file not found #WARNING: LoaderException:loadLibrary:run_octopus: file not found #WARNING: LoaderException:loadLibrary:mmath: loader error dlopen(/Applications/MonetDB.app/lib/MonetDB5/lib/lib_mmath.dylib, 10): Symbol not found: ___fpclassifyd Referenced from: /Applications/MonetDB.app/lib/MonetDB5/lib/lib_mmath.dylib Expected in: flat namespace # Listening for connection requests on mapi:monetdb://127.0.0.1:50000/ Bus error All this was compiled using a cross compiler, because I didn't trust gdkscanselect compiling to the device. If someone sees from the above output where I should start looking, I'm happy to take a peak there, my guess is some chdir gets wrong. I was a bit minimalistic with compiling; but mclient works ;) [without readline] iPod-van-Stefan-de-Konink:/Applications/MonetDB.app/bin root# ./mclient -lsql -h 192.168.1.2 select * from tables; % .tables, .tables, .tables, .tables, .tables, .tables, .tables, .tables # table_name % id, name, schema_id, query, type, system, commit_action, temporary # name % int, varchar, int, varchar, smallint, boolean, smallint, tinyint # type % 4, 29, 4, 168, 1, 5, 1, 1 # length [ 1062, "schemas", 1061, NULL, 0, true, 0, 0 ] [ 1067, "types", 1061, NULL, 0, true, 0, 0 ] [ 1076, "functions", 1061, NULL, 0, true, 0, 0 ] [ 1085, "args", 1061, NULL, 0, true, 0, 0 ] ..... Stefan