diff --git a/profiles/mingw/eapi b/profiles/mingw/eapi
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+++ b/profiles/mingw/eapi
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+5
diff --git a/profiles/mingw/make.defaults b/profiles/mingw/make.defaults
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+ELIBC="Winnt"
+KERNEL="Winnt"
+
+FEATURES="nostrip"
diff --git a/profiles/mingw/package.provided b/profiles/mingw/package.provided
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+++ b/profiles/mingw/package.provided
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+sys-winnt/libc-6.1
+media-libs/opengl-windows-6.1
diff --git a/profiles/mingw/package.use b/profiles/mingw/package.use
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+## Static libs and threads result in tss linker errors in mingw
+dev-libs/boost static-libs