I'd assume in the sence that he won't be pulling all his hair out.

By the way, I've found that you have to be careful when compiling applications on winnt/2k/xp boxes and trying to run the applications on win9x boxes. They use different kernels/libraries/etc. Personally, I'd try compiling the application on a win98 box just to make sure, because I have run into issues of that nature before.