cygwin compilation fails to configure GCC

[nopjne]

...
checking whether to avoid linking multiple front-ends at once... no
Links are now set up to build a cross-compiler
 from x86_64-pc-linux-gnu to mips64-unknown-elf.
checking for exported symbols... objdump: conftest.exe: not a dynamic object
yes
checking for -rdynamic... objdump: conftest.exe: not a dynamic object
no
checking for library containing dlopen... (cached) none required
checking for -fPIC -shared... no
configure: error:
   Building GCC with plugin support requires a host that supports
   -fPIC, -shared, -ldl and -rdynamic.
make: *** [Makefile:4323: configure-gcc] Error 1

I'm attempting to compile the N64 chain under cygwin, however I'm running into the above error. After spending some time searching online I was not able to find similar problems and I'm not sure how to fix the issue. Did some other steps go wrong, or is GCC not getting configured correctly?