ac> You got further than me.

   WOW! Now I'm really impressed by myself.  8-)

 I tried using MingW supplied with Codeblocks:

   I downloaded the latest mingw-get-setup.exe I could find and installed it on
a virgin Virtual Box.

 ac> Hmm. Evidently from all the forward slashes in the Makefile, it's
 ac> expecting to be built from within a Cygwin environment, not with the
 ac> regular MingW tools.

   Sounds like a clash between different makefile versions. I *so* do wish that
the binkd people could make available properly set up installs for the
different platforms they try to cover.

 ac> mno-cygwin is basically for building Windows binaries that don't depend
 ac> on the Cygwin DLLs. Apparently deprecated in GCC 4.7, though.

   Jeepers creepers. Whoever invented that build? I'm sure glad that the MakeNl
project is not that entangled with various dependencies.

--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox