diff --git a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
index ab4c6a2d9c9..3f583668f66 100644
--- a/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
+++ b/meta/conf/bitbake.conf
@@ -307,12 +307,14 @@ BB_MULTI_PROVIDER_ALLOWED = "virtual/libintl virtual/libintl-native virtual/nati
 
 SOLIBS = ".so.*"
 SOLIBS:darwin = ".dylib"
+SOLIBS:mingw32 = ".dll"
 
 SOLIBSDEV = ".so"
 # Due to the ordering of PACKAGES and the naming of the dev symlinks on darwin,
 # we can't make the symlinks end up in the -dev packages easily at this point. This hack
 # at least means builds aren't completely broken and symlinks don't take up much space.
 SOLIBSDEV:darwin = ".dylibbroken"
+SOLIBSDEV:mingw32 = ".dll"
 
 PACKAGE_DEBUG_SPLIT_STYLE ?= "debug-with-srcpkg"