diff --git a/nix/sources-mingw.json b/nix/sources-mingw.json
index 53dcecb3c..59e74f2c9 100644
--- a/nix/sources-mingw.json
+++ b/nix/sources-mingw.json
@@ -1,4 +1,21 @@
 {
+    "curl": {
+        "branch": "master",
+        "description": "A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax",
+        "homepage": "http://curl.se/",
+        "mingw": {
+            "include": "include",
+            "lib": "lib/.libs",
+            "prepare": "autoreconf -vfi && ./configure --disable-shared --disable-ldap --disable-rtsp --without-brotli --without-libidn2 --without-libpsl --without-nghttp2",
+            "make": "-C lib libcurl.la"
+        },
+        "owner": "curl",
+        "repo": "curl",
+        "rev": "curl-7_75_0",
+        "type": "tarball",
+        "url": "https://github.com/curl/curl/archive/curl-7_75_0.tar.gz",
+        "url_template": "https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/archive/<rev>.tar.gz"
+    },
     "lmdb": {
         "branch": "mdb.master",
         "description": "LMDB library",
diff --git a/pkg/urbit/configure b/pkg/urbit/configure
index 41ee361a9..52809d6cd 100755
--- a/pkg/urbit/configure
+++ b/pkg/urbit/configure
@@ -115,9 +115,13 @@ popd
 
      # increase default thread stack size and link Windows implibs
      ldextra="-Wl,--stack,67108864 -lbcrypt -lws2_32"
+     # libcurl implibs
+     ldextra="$ldextra -lzstd"
+     # libuv implibs
+     ldextra="$ldextra -luserenv -liphlpapi -lpsapi"
      vcompat="compat = mingw"
-     CFLAGS="${CFLAGS-} ${cdirs[@]} -DH2O_NO_UNIX_SOCKETS -Icompat/mingw"
-     LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS-} ${ldirs[@]}"
+     CFLAGS="${CFLAGS-} ${cdirs[@]} -DCURL_STATICLIB -DH2O_NO_UNIX_SOCKETS -Icompat/mingw"
+     LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS-} -static ${ldirs[@]}"
      PKG_CONFIG="echo"
      ;;
   *linux*)