diff --git a/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile b/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile
index e0e31ecfbf..1e800a344c 100644
--- a/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile
+++ b/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile
@@ -36,6 +36,27 @@ DATA = plperl.control plperl--1.0.sql plperl--unpackaged--1.0.sql \
 
 PERLCHUNKS = plc_perlboot.pl plc_trusted.pl
 
+# Perl on win32 ships with import libraries only for Microsoft Visual C++,
+# which are not compatible with mingw gcc. Therefore we need to build a
+# new import library to link with.
+ifeq ($(PORTNAME), win32)
+
+perlwithver := $(subst -l,,$(filter -l%, $(perl_embed_ldflags)))
+PERLDLL := $(dir $(subst ',,$(PERL)))$(perlwithver).dll
+# we no longer want to include the original -l spec in SHLIB_LINK
+override perl_embed_ldflags :=
+
+OBJS += lib$(perlwithver).a
+
+lib$(perlwithver).a: $(perlwithver).def
+	dlltool --dllname $(perlwithver).dll --def $(perlwithver).def --output-lib lib$(perlwithver).a
+
+$(perlwithver).def: $(PERLDLL)
+	pexports $^ > $@
+
+endif # win32
+
+
 SHLIB_LINK = $(perl_embed_ldflags)
 
 REGRESS_OPTS = --dbname=$(PL_TESTDB) --load-extension=plperl  --load-extension=plperlu
@@ -105,6 +126,9 @@ submake:
 clean distclean maintainer-clean: clean-lib
 	rm -f SPI.c Util.c $(OBJS) perlchunks.h plperl_opmask.h
 	rm -rf $(pg_regress_clean_files)
+ifeq ($(PORTNAME), win32)
+	rm -f $(perlwithver).def
+endif
 
 else # can't build