diff -r -u readline-5.2/support/shlib-install readline-5.2-new/support/shlib-install
--- readline-5.2/support/shlib-install	Tue Jan  3 19:06:27 2006
+++ readline-5.2-new/support/shlib-install	Fri Jul 18 13:54:01 2008
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
 	if [ -z "$uninstall" ]; then
 		chmod 555 ${INSTALLDIR}/${LIBNAME}
 	fi ;;
-cygwin*)
+cygwin*|mingw*)
 	IMPLIBNAME=`echo ${LIBNAME} \
 		| sed -e 's,^cyg,lib,' -e 's,[0-9]*.dll$,.dll.a,'`
 	if [ -z "$uninstall" ]; then
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
 	fi
 	;;

-cygwin*)
+cygwin*|mingw*)
 	# Links to .dlls don't work.  Hence shobj-conf used DLLVERSION.dll
 	# instead of so.SHLIB_MAJOR.SHLIB_MINOR.  The postinstall above
 	# took care of everything else.
diff -r -u readline-5.2/support/shobj-conf readline-5.2-new/support/shobj-conf
--- readline-5.2/support/shobj-conf	Tue Apr 11 13:15:43 2006
+++ readline-5.2-new/support/shobj-conf	Fri Jul 18 13:52:33 2008
@@ -505,6 +505,23 @@
         fi
 	;;

+mingw*)
+	SHOBJ_LD='$(CC)'
+        SHOBJ_LDFLAGS='-shared -Wl,--enable-auto-import -Wl,--enable-auto-image-base -Wl,--export-all -Wl,--out-implib=$(@).a'
+        SHLIB_LIBSUFF='dll'
+        SHLIB_LIBVERSION='$(SHLIB_DLLVERSION).$(SHLIB_LIBSUFF)'
+        SHLIB_LIBS='$(TERMCAP_LIB)'
+
+	SHLIB_DOT=
+        # For official cygwin releases, DLLVERSION will be defined in the
+        # environment of configure, and will be incremented any time the API
+        # changes in a non-backwards compatible manner.  Otherwise, it is just
+        # SHLIB_MAJOR.
+        if [ -n "$DLLVERSION" ] ; then
+		SHLIB_DLLVERSION="$DLLVERSION"
+        fi
+	;;
+
 #
 # Rely on correct gcc configuration for everything else
 #