diff -ur src/main.c zenity-2.28.0-mingw/src/main.c
--- src/main.c	2009-08-06 15:26:24 +0100
+++ zenity-2.28.0-mingw/src/main.c	2009-11-06 15:46:07 +0000
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 #include "zenity.h"
 #include "option.h"
+#include "util.h"
 
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <glib.h>
@@ -43,7 +44,11 @@
   setlocale(LC_ALL,"");
 #endif
 
+#ifdef MINGW_BUILD
+  bindtextdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, zenity_util_pass_path ( "locale", "\\"));
+#else
   bindtextdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, GNOMELOCALEDIR);
+#endif
   bind_textdomain_codeset(GETTEXT_PACKAGE, "UTF-8");
   textdomain(GETTEXT_PACKAGE);
 
diff -ur /src/util.c zenity-2.28.0-mingw/src/util.c
--- /src/util.c	2009-08-06 15:26:24 +0100
+++ zenity-2.28.0-mingw/src/util.c	2009-11-06 15:26:24 +0000
@@ -49,6 +49,16 @@
 #define ZENITY_ERROR_DEFAULT	-1
 #define ZENITY_EXTRA_DEFAULT	127
 
+#ifdef MINGW_BUILD
+char * zenity_util_pass_path ( char *folder, char *filename ) {
+	char*		datadir = getenv("ZENITY_DATADIR");
+	static char		temp[2048];		// the path is shall not exceed 2048 characters
+	sprintf(temp, "%s%s%s", datadir, folder, filename);
+
+	return temp;
+}
+#endif
+
 GtkBuilder*
 zenity_util_load_ui_file (const gchar *root_widget, ...)
 {
diff -ur /src/util.h zenity-2.28.0-mingw/src/util.h
--- /src/util.h	2009-08-06 15:26:24 +0100
+++ zenity-2.28.0-mingw/src/util.h	2009-11-06 15:29:35 +0000
@@ -6,10 +6,19 @@
 
 G_BEGIN_DECLS
 
+#ifdef MINGW_BUILD
+#define ZENITY_UI_FILE_FULLPATH			zenity_util_pass_path ( "data\\", "zenity.ui")
+#define ZENITY_UI_FILE_RELATIVEPATH		"./zenity.ui"
+
+#define ZENITY_IMAGE_FULLPATH(filename)		zenity_util_pass_path ( "data\\", filename )
+#else
 #define ZENITY_UI_FILE_FULLPATH              ZENITY_DATADIR "/zenity.ui"
 #define ZENITY_UI_FILE_RELATIVEPATH          "./zenity.ui"
 
 #define ZENITY_IMAGE_FULLPATH(filename)         (ZENITY_DATADIR "/" filename)
+#endif
+
+char *		zenity_util_pass_path		( char *folder, char *filename );
 
 GtkBuilder*     zenity_util_load_ui_file                  (const gchar    *widget_root, ...) G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED;
 gchar *         zenity_util_strip_newline                 (gchar          *string);