diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 687b364..ac4be48 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2016-11-27  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	Fix build with mingw.
+	* README.windows: Augment PATH for mingw, so that it finds libstdc++.
+
 2016-11-27  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	Assume the available C compiler supports ANSI C. Remove K&R C cruft.
diff --git a/README.windows b/README.windows
index baf6435..ecda548 100644
--- a/README.windows
+++ b/README.windows
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows:
    Building 32-bit binaries for mingw is achieved through the following
    preparation, configure, and build commands:
 
-      PATH=/usr/local/mingw32/bin:$PATH
+      PATH=/usr/local/mingw32/bin:/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin:$PATH
       export PATH
       ./configure --host=i686-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/mingw32 \
             CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc \
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ There are three ways to create binaries of this package for Microsoft Windows:
    Building 64-bit binaries for mingw is achieved through the following
    preparation, configure, and build commands:
 
-      PATH=/usr/local/mingw64/bin:$PATH
+      PATH=/usr/local/mingw64/bin:/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin:$PATH
       export PATH
       ./configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --prefix=/usr/local/mingw64 \
             CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc \