diff --git a/docs/build_mingw_windows.txt b/docs/build_mingw_windows.txt
index a9435bfb..01cdf777 100644
--- a/docs/build_mingw_windows.txt
+++ b/docs/build_mingw_windows.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ on your Linux system.
 (if this does not work, as some packages might be broken, try the latest development release:
 hg clone http://hg.savannah.nongnu.org/hgweb/mingw-cross-env mingw )
 
-3. Within /opt/mingw, run
+3. Patch OpenSSL dependencies out of Qt build file (OpenSSL license is not compatible with the GPL)
+Within /opt/mingw, run
+patch -p1 < /path/to/pokerth/docs/win32_rm_openssl.diff
+
+4. Within /opt/mingw, run
 make gcc
 make qt
 make boost
@@ -21,17 +25,17 @@ make sdl_mixer
 make tinyxml
 (this takes quite some time)
 
-4. As the user you would like to use to compile PokerTH for Windows,
+5. As the user you would like to use to compile PokerTH for Windows,
 add the cross compiler to your path; e.g.:
 PATH="/opt/mingw/usr/bin:$PATH"
 (in .profile)
 Alternatively, run
 export PATH="/opt/mingw/usr/bin:$PATH"
 
-5. Download and extract whichever source version of PokerTH you wish to compile.
+6. Download and extract whichever source version of PokerTH you wish to compile.
 http://pokerth.net/download.html
 
-6. Within the pokerth directory, run
+7. Within the pokerth directory, run
 i686-pc-mingw32-qmake DEFINES+=BOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB pokerth.pro
 make release
 
diff --git a/docs/win32_rm_openssl.diff b/docs/win32_rm_openssl.diff
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ed9dfdd0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/win32_rm_openssl.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+--- a/src/qt.mk	Mon Feb 21 21:18:11 2011 +0100
++++ b/src/qt.mk	Tue Feb 22 00:17:48 2011 +0100
+@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
+ $(PKG)_FILE     := $(PKG)-everywhere-opensource-src-$($(PKG)_VERSION).tar.gz
+ $(PKG)_WEBSITE  := http://qt.nokia.com/
+ $(PKG)_URL      := http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/$($(PKG)_FILE)
+-$(PKG)_DEPS     := gcc libodbc++ postgresql freetds openssl libgcrypt zlib libpng jpeg libmng tiff sqlite libiconv dbus
++$(PKG)_DEPS     := gcc libodbc++ freetds libgcrypt zlib libpng jpeg libmng tiff sqlite libiconv dbus
+ 
+ define $(PKG)_UPDATE
+     wget -q -O- 'http://qt.gitorious.org/qt/qt/commits' | \
+@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@
+     #
+     # For shared Qt with qt-zlib, add -lQtCore4 to end of OPENSSL_LIBS to satisfy zlib dependency.
+     cd '$(1)' && \
+-        OPENSSL_LIBS="`'$(TARGET)-pkg-config' --libs-only-l openssl`" \
+-        PSQL_LIBS="-lpq -lsecur32 `'$(TARGET)-pkg-config' --libs-only-l openssl` -lws2_32" \
+         SYBASE_LIBS="-lsybdb -liconv -lws2_32" \
+         ./configure \
+         -opensource \
+@@ -47,6 +45,7 @@
+         -no-gstreamer \
+         -no-phonon \
+         -no-phonon-backend \
++        -no-openssl \
+         -accessibility \
+         -no-reduce-exports \
+         -no-rpath \
+@@ -56,7 +55,6 @@
+         -nomake examples \
+         -qt-sql-sqlite \
+         -qt-sql-odbc \
+-        -qt-sql-psql \
+         -qt-sql-tds -D Q_USE_SYBASE \
+         -system-zlib \
+         -system-libpng \
+@@ -64,7 +62,6 @@
+         -system-libtiff \
+         -system-libmng \
+         -system-sqlite \
+-        -openssl-linked \
+         -dbus-linked \
+         -v
+