diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 088128e5e74..54693aace64 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5918,6 +5918,8 @@ if test "x$enable_btls" = "xyes"; then
 				if test "x$HAVE_YASM" != "xyes"; then
 					BTLS_CMAKE_ARGS="-DOPENSSL_NO_ASM=1"
 				fi
+				mono_btls_dir_abs=`cd $srcdir && pwd`/mono/btls
+				BTLS_CMAKE_ARGS="$BTLS_CMAKE_ARGS -DCYGWIN=TRUE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=\"$mono_btls_dir_abs/mxe-Win32.cmake\""
 				;;
 		esac
 		;;
@@ -5929,6 +5931,8 @@ if test "x$enable_btls" = "xyes"; then
 				if test "x$HAVE_YASM" != "xyes"; then
 					BTLS_CMAKE_ARGS="-DOPENSSL_NO_ASM=1"
 				fi
+				mono_btls_dir_abs=`cd $srcdir && pwd`/mono/btls
+				BTLS_CMAKE_ARGS="$BTLS_CMAKE_ARGS -DCYGWIN=TRUE -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=\"$mono_btls_dir_abs/mxe-Win64.cmake\""
 				;;
 		esac
 		;;
diff --git a/mono/btls/CMakeLists.txt b/mono/btls/CMakeLists.txt
index 992f41e4c7f..9946f5d21a4 100644
--- a/mono/btls/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/mono/btls/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -129,4 +129,5 @@ endif ()
 
 if (CYGWIN)
 	target_link_libraries (mono-btls-shared wsock32 ws2_32)
+	target_link_options (mono-btls-shared PRIVATE -static-libgcc)
 endif ()
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