Windows install - cannot intsall/update image package

[Nicholas Jankowski]

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GNU Octave Version: 4.4.1 (hg id: 1f46d371968c)
GNU Octave License: GNU General Public License
Operating System: MINGW32_NT-6.2 Windows 6.2  x86_64
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I thought image was one of the packages that had no problem installing
on a windows machine, but running a pkg update or separately trying to
'pkg install -forge image'  produces the following error:

configure: error: in `/tmp/oct-RIUqKL/image-2.10.0/src':
configure: error: cannot run C++ compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for octave... C:/Programs/Octave/OCTAVE~1.1-W/bin/octave-4.4.1.bat
checking for mkoctfile...
C:/Programs/Octave/OCTAVE~1.1-W/bin/mkoctfile-4.4.1.exe
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.exe
checking for suffix of executables... .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling...
pkg: error running the configure script for image.
error: called from
    configure_make at line 82 column 9
    install at line 184 column 7
    pkg at line 437 column 9