diff --git a/doc/Changelog b/doc/Changelog
index 3944d29e7..629a819e3 100644
--- a/doc/Changelog
+++ b/doc/Changelog
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 22 September 2014: Wouter
 	- Fix swig and python examples for Python 3.x.
+	- Fix for mingw compile with openssl-1.0.1i.
 
 19 September 2014: Wouter
 	- improve python configuration detection to build on Fedora 22.
diff --git a/makedist.sh b/makedist.sh
index 6f8b474ae..dd931aac5 100755
--- a/makedist.sh
+++ b/makedist.sh
@@ -203,9 +203,10 @@ if [ "$DOWIN" = "yes" ]; then
 		cd openssl-* || error_cleanup "no openssl-X dir in tarball"
 		# configure for crosscompile, without CAPI because it fails
 		# cross-compilation and it is not used anyway
-		sslflags="no-asm --cross-compile-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32- -DOPENSSL_NO_CAPIENG mingw"
+		# before 1.0.1i need --cross-compile-prefix=i686-w64-mingw32-
+		sslflags="no-asm -DOPENSSL_NO_CAPIENG mingw"
 		info "winssl: Configure $sslflags"
-		./Configure --prefix="$sslinstall" $sslflags || error_cleanup "OpenSSL Configure failed"
+		CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc ./Configure --prefix="$sslinstall" $sslflags || error_cleanup "OpenSSL Configure failed"
 		info "winssl: make"
 		make || error_cleanup "OpenSSL crosscompile failed"
 		# only install sw not docs, which take a long time.