Unable to extract GMP version information from gmp_version :mingw

Sun Oct 25 04:44:19 GMT 2020

HI all-
I am experimenting with mingW64 with cygwin.
My ./configure looks like this:
$ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATHC:/cygwin/lib
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/user/cobol-3.1-rc1 --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
checking for gmp... nochecking for libgmp... nochecking gmp.h usability... yeschecking gmp.h presence... yeschecking for gmp.h... yeschecking for gmp.h... (cached) yeschecking if linking against libgmp with "-lgmp" works... yeschecking matching GMP version... configure: error: Unable to extract GMP version information from gmp_version
I installed the gmp package for mingw64. I went in and installed libgmp mingW64 package and the headers for in devel section of the cygwin installer.
I have the file libgmp.dll.a in c:/cygwin/lib
Please let me know if there is anything i can do to get past this error.
thanks,roboloki