diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d840b0a51f016e6..444773ec8ca6086 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -6817,6 +6817,14 @@ dnl have_panel=[no, panelw, panel]
 have_curses=no
 have_panel=no
 
+case "$host_os" in
+	mingw*)
+	# On Mingw, include directory is different, so just assume
+  # it's there.
+	ac_cv_header_ncurses_h=yes
+	;;
+esac
+
 AH_TEMPLATE([HAVE_NCURSESW], [Define to 1 if you have the `ncursesw' library.])
 AC_CHECK_HEADERS([curses.h ncurses.h])