diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8cc8190b1..ea260de83 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2007-12-14 Dietmar Warning
+ * configure.in, src/spicelib/devices/dev.c: allow mingw build w/o GUI
+
 2007-12-14 Holger Vogt
  * src/frontend/runcoms.c, runcoms2.c: fix the filetype problem if set in spinit
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index f5ca60957..f16328182 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -384,9 +384,11 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(ftime)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(gettimeofday time)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(getrusage utimes)
 AC_CHECK_FUNCS(getrlimit ulimit , break)
-if test "$with_windows" = "yes"; then
-	AC_DEFINE(HAVE__MEMAVL,[1],[Get system memory from windows API])
-fi
+
+case $host_os in
+  *mingw* )
+	AC_DEFINE(HAVE__MEMAVL,1,[Get system memory from windows API])
+esac   
 
 dnl Look for termios first (posix)
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS(termios.h termio.h sgtty.h , break)
diff --git a/src/spicelib/devices/dev.c b/src/spicelib/devices/dev.c
index ea4005695..4f0b9d67e 100644
--- a/src/spicelib/devices/dev.c
+++ b/src/spicelib/devices/dev.c
@@ -42,11 +42,13 @@
 #ifdef XSPICE
 /*saj headers for xspice*/
 #include <string.h> /* for strcpy, strcat*/
-#ifndef HAS_WINDOWS
+#if (!defined HAS_WINDOWS) && (!defined __MINGW32__)
 #include <dlfcn.h> /* to load libraries*/
 #else /* ifdef HAS_WINDOWS */
 #include <windows.h>
+#ifdef HAS_WINDOWS
 #include "wstdio.h"
+#endif
 void *dlopen (const char *, int);
 void *dlsym (void *, const char *);
 int dlclose (void *);