> It is curious.  How are topdir extout defined in the Makefile?
> And since you don't use -mno-cygwin option, I suspect you use
> mingw which isn't cygwin.  Then it isn't supported now.
Interesting--I successfully compiled it a few days ago.  I might have
been using cygwin make if that's the case :)

Is this a recent thing?

The OCI guys use mingw exclusively for their compiles [which work with
1.8.x] so I had assumed it worked ok.
Thoughts?
Thanks!
-=R