hi, your comment on compiling using cygwin is rather old. it would work by just using the unix-method, if the stupid installation routine would add an ".EXE" to the files before trying to move them to the installation dir. in the /src/Makefile.in are some "@EXE@" strings. But there is nobody who makes any use of them. just replacing them with a ".EXE" looked better, but did not help. it still crashes with: [...]hugs/src$ make install unix/install-sh -d [...]hugs/bin unix/install-sh hugs [...]hugs/bin mv: preserving times for `[...]hugs/bin/#inst.1468#': No such file or directory mv: cannot unlink `hugs': No such file or directory mv: cannot remove `hugs': No such file or directory make: *** [install_bin] Error 1 is there anybody who can fix that? thanks Jan