diff --git a/changes/bug7260 b/changes/bug7260
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..f174461400b44ae6da99ec18ac722589678eb305
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug7260
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes:
+    - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from "yayooo".
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 105528e1422f59372dd62c36f7f611da11894b72..9cc19f897a62dea4d1ba41af3bdc98a3fffa3b01 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -318,6 +318,7 @@ AC_CHECK_FUNCS(
         sysconf \
         uname \
         vasprintf \
+	_vscprintf
 )
 
 if test "$enable_threads" = "yes"; then
@@ -784,6 +785,7 @@ AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(__int64)
 AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(void *)
 AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(time_t)
 AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(size_t)
+AC_CHECK_SIZEOF(pid_t)
 
 AC_CHECK_TYPES([uint, u_char, ssize_t])
 
diff --git a/src/common/compat.c b/src/common/compat.c
index b8674a2f5f450d8c75b3ea20aede3b9db069df0b..74585cd614fb52ac31f0397f06ca31b3b2233761 100644
--- a/src/common/compat.c
+++ b/src/common/compat.c
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ tor_vasprintf(char **strp, const char *fmt, va_list args)
   else
     *strp = strp_tmp;
   return r;
-#elif defined(_MSC_VER)
+#elif defined(HAVE__VSCPRINTF)
   /* On Windows, _vsnprintf won't tell us the length of the string if it
    * overflows, so we need to use _vcsprintf to tell how much to allocate */
   int len, r;
diff --git a/src/common/procmon.c b/src/common/procmon.c
index 36b1a48553630d27b51099ee68560f91ac494dee..3f92c16ee389946b2610015f0620f1527b0c71d4 100644
--- a/src/common/procmon.c
+++ b/src/common/procmon.c
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@
 
 #ifdef _WIN32
 #include <windows.h>
+#endif
 
+#if 0 == SIZEOF_PID_T
 /* Windows does not define pid_t, but _getpid() returns an int. */
 typedef int pid_t;
 #endif
diff --git a/src/win32/orconfig.h b/src/win32/orconfig.h
index e4b2df78a97ee5b83337f3f20e8dae8fdea50e14..4055bb07abaf4a813a853904cf9afbbaec5750d2 100644
--- a/src/win32/orconfig.h
+++ b/src/win32/orconfig.h
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@
 /* Define to 1 if you have the <unistd.h> header file. */
 #undef HAVE_UNISTD_H
 
+/* Define to 1 if you have the `_vscprintf' function. */
+#define HAVE__VSCPRINTF 1
+
 /* Define to 1 iff NULL is represented by a 0 in memory. */
 #define NULL_REP_IS_ZERO_BYTES 1
 
@@ -190,6 +193,9 @@
 /* The size of a `long long', as computed by sizeof. */
 #undef SIZEOF_LONG_LONG
 
+/* The size of `pid_t', as computed by sizeof. */
+#define SIZEOF_PID_T 0
+
 /* The size of a `short', as computed by sizeof. */
 #define SIZEOF_SHORT 2