--- configure
+++ configure
@@ -13205,14 +13315,24 @@
 if test -z "$STRIP"; then
   { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
 $as_echo "no" >&6; }
 else
   if $STRIP -V 2>&1 | $GREP "GNU strip" >/dev/null; then
-    old_striplib="$STRIP --strip-debug"
-    striplib="$STRIP --strip-unneeded"
-    { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: yes" >&5
+    case $host_os in
+    winnt*)
+      # Stripping is not save here, since POSIXish host utils may
+      # be detected, but we operate on native windows libraries.
+      { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
+$as_echo "no" >&6; }
+      ;;
+    *)
+      old_striplib="$STRIP --strip-debug"
+      striplib="$STRIP --strip-unneeded"
+      { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: yes" >&5
 $as_echo "yes" >&6; }
+      ;;
+    esac
   else
     case $host_os in
     darwin*)
       # FIXME - insert some real tests, host_os isn't really good enough
       striplib="$STRIP -x"