Hi, it looks I lost a portion of the 1.7 package due to a small difference in compilation between 1.5 and 1.7 to download: wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=2 http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin-1.7/octave-forge/ octave-forge-20080831-8-src.tar.bz2 octave-forge-20080831-8.tar.bz2 setup.hint Regards Marco