diff -Naur blender-2.77a-orig/intern/ghost/intern/GHOST_SystemPathsWin32.cpp blender-2.77a/intern/ghost/intern/GHOST_SystemPathsWin32.cpp
--- blender-2.77a-orig/intern/ghost/intern/GHOST_SystemPathsWin32.cpp	2016-03-16 15:57:57.000000000 +0300
+++ blender-2.77a/intern/ghost/intern/GHOST_SystemPathsWin32.cpp	2016-07-12 13:40:38.182595000 +0300
@@ -69,6 +69,44 @@
 {
 }
 
+#if defined(__MINGW32__)
+
+const GHOST_TUns8 *GHOST_SystemPathsWin32::getSystemDir(int, const char *versionstr) const
+{
+	static char knownpath[MAX_PATH * 3 + 128] = {0};
+
+	char temppath[MAX_PATH + 1];
+	char temppath2[MAX_PATH + 1];
+	const GHOST_TUns8 *binary_dir = getBinaryDir();
+	strcpy(temppath2, reinterpret_cast<const char*>(binary_dir));
+	char* lastslash = strrchr(temppath2, '\\');
+	if (lastslash != NULL) {
+		*lastslash = '\0';
+	}
+	snprintf(temppath, sizeof(temppath), "%s\\..\\share\\blender\\%s", temppath2, versionstr);
+	temppath[MAX_PATH] = '\0';
+	GetFullPathNameA(temppath, sizeof(knownpath), knownpath, NULL);
+	return (GHOST_TUns8*)knownpath;
+}
+
+const GHOST_TUns8 *GHOST_SystemPathsWin32::getUserDir(int, const char *versionstr) const
+{
+	static char knownpath[MAX_PATH * 3 + 128] = {0};
+
+	char temppath[MAX_PATH + 1];
+	char temppath2[MAX_PATH + 1];
+	const GHOST_TUns8 *binary_dir = getBinaryDir();
+	strcpy(temppath2, reinterpret_cast<const char*>(binary_dir));
+	char* lastslash = strrchr(temppath2, '\\');
+	if (lastslash != NULL) {
+		*lastslash = '\0';
+	}
+	snprintf(temppath, sizeof(temppath), "%s\\..\\..\\home\\%s\\.blender\\%s", temppath2, getenv("USERNAME") ?: "unknown", versionstr);
+	temppath[MAX_PATH] = '\0';
+	GetFullPathNameA(temppath, sizeof(knownpath), knownpath, NULL);
+	return (GHOST_TUns8*)knownpath;
+}
+#else
 const GHOST_TUns8 *GHOST_SystemPathsWin32::getSystemDir(int, const char *versionstr) const
 {
 	static char knownpath[MAX_PATH * 3 + 128] = {0}; /* 1 utf-16 might translante into 3 utf-8. 2 utf-16 translates into 4 utf-8*/
@@ -105,6 +143,8 @@
 	return NULL;
 }
 
+#endif
+
 const GHOST_TUns8 *GHOST_SystemPathsWin32::getUserSpecialDir(GHOST_TUserSpecialDirTypes type) const
 {
   GUID folderid;