I receive the mailing list in digest form, so forgive the lack of threading on this reply. BTW, good to hear from a Rose-Hulman student (I am an alum).
I think your basic problem is that you don't need cygwin _and_ mingw installed. You need one or the other, but not both. Since the web site you refer to mentions that cygwin gcc doesn't always work with matlab, I would suggest you forget cygwin and go with mingw (and msys) all the way. Try that, and if it doesn't work, at least your problem is simplified, and it may be easier to find an answer. And BTW, you can't post mingw issues here - this list is cygwin only. Wnen you have a minute, take a look at the cygwin octave package - it can do most of what matlab does, and there is even some mex compatibility if you install octave-forge. James R. Phillips RHIT EE '78 and cygwin octave maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/