diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a35c11e954..a396577658 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2008-04-06  Sebastian Dröge  <slomo@circular-chaos.org>
+
+        Patch by: Damien Lespiau <damien dot lespiau at gmail dot com>
+
+        * configure.ac:
+        Actually build dlls when cross-compiling with mingw32.
+        Fixes bug #526247.
+
 2008-04-04  Sebastian Dröge  <slomo@circular-chaos.org>
 
 	* configure.ac:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6277a6508c..547823a3c8 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ dnl the generated libtool script has no support for the listed tags.
 dnl So this needs to be fixed first if we want to use this
 dnl AS_LIBTOOL_TAGS([CXX])
 
+AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL
 AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
 
 dnl *** required versions of GStreamer stuff ***