I tried out of the root shell and still it doesnt work. I have now looked a bit more closely at the error "libhildonmm-1.0.so.5 error missing shared libaray". When I look in /usr/lib I cannot see this file or any "mm" C++ library files.

I was also trying to run the program by simply typing in the name "helloworld" and I would get the erorr, "no such file or directory". I hadnt realised that I need to type the full path and filename to get it to run. Hence the reason why I was using run-standalone.sh!

Can someone confirm that the C++ libraries are not installed by default on a N900 - and if not, is there an easy (safe http://maemomm.garage.maemo.org/docs...-from-packages ?) way of installing them, perhaps a program from the apps manager that also has this dependancy ?