update to solve the missing .exe to download: wget -r -np -nH --cut-dirs=2 http://matzeri.altervista.org/cygwin-1.7/hdf5/ setup.hint hdf5-1.6.9-2-src.tar.bz2 hdf5-1.6.9-2.tar.bz2 libhdf5-devel/libhdf5-devel-1.6.9-2.tar.bz2 libhdf5-devel/setup.hint libhdf5_0/libhdf5_0-1.6.9-2.tar.bz2 libhdf5_0/setup.hint Regards Marco