diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 3a3701f5..9929192e 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ function buildConsole() {
          TARGET="Building Cygwin MinGW console version."
          AC_DEFINE(__MINGW32__, 1, [as above])
          AC_DEFINE(_UnixOS, 1, [Building under Unix like systems.])
-         PACKAGE_LIBS="${PACKAGE_LIBS} -mconsole -lmingw32 -lwsock32"
+         PACKAGE_LIBS="${PACKAGE_LIBS} -mconsole -lmingw32 -lwsock32 -lws2_32 -static-libgcc"
          BUILD_SUBDIRS="src/common src/platform/console"
       fi
       AC_DEFINE(_Win32, 1, [Windows build])
diff --git a/src/platform/sdl/syswm.cpp b/src/platform/sdl/syswm.cpp
index 6f7ab7d2..30189bc6 100644
--- a/src/platform/sdl/syswm.cpp
+++ b/src/platform/sdl/syswm.cpp
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ void launchExec(const char *file) {
   STARTUPINFO info = {sizeof(info)};
   PROCESS_INFORMATION processInfo;
   char cmd[1024];
-  sprintf(cmd, "-x %s", file);
+  sprintf(cmd, "%s -x %s", g_appPath, file);
   if (!CreateProcess(g_appPath, cmd, NULL, NULL, TRUE, 0, NULL, NULL, &info, &processInfo)) {
     appLog("failed to start %d %s %s\n", GetLastError(), g_appPath, cmd);
   }