diff --git a/ci/test/00_setup_env_win64.sh b/ci/test/00_setup_env_win64.sh
index 4342e3e6ac1..dbbf55c1478 100755
--- a/ci/test/00_setup_env_win64.sh
+++ b/ci/test/00_setup_env_win64.sh
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 export CONTAINER_NAME=ci_win64
 export CI_IMAGE_NAME_TAG="mirror.gcr.io/debian:trixie"  # Check that https://packages.debian.org/trixie/g++-mingw-w64-ucrt64 can cross-compile
 export HOST=x86_64-w64-mingw32ucrt
-export DEP_OPTS="CC=${HOST}-gcc CXX=${HOST}-g++"
 export PACKAGES="g++-mingw-w64-ucrt64 nsis"
 export RUN_UNIT_TESTS=false
 export RUN_FUNCTIONAL_TESTS=false
diff --git a/depends/README.md b/depends/README.md
index 71110e945e6..706c3db0d95 100644
--- a/depends/README.md
+++ b/depends/README.md
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ Common `host-platform-triplet`s for cross compilation are:
 
 - `i686-pc-linux-gnu` for Linux x86 32 bit
 - `x86_64-pc-linux-gnu` for Linux x86 64 bit
-- `x86_64-w64-mingw32` for Win64
+- `x86_64-w64-mingw32` for Windows using MSVCRT
+- `x86_64-w64-mingw32ucrt` for Windows using UCRT
 - `x86_64-apple-darwin` for Intel macOS
 - `arm64-apple-darwin` for ARM macOS
 - `arm-linux-gnueabihf` for Linux ARM 32 bit
@@ -144,10 +145,14 @@ proceeding with a cross-compile. Under the depends directory, create a
 subdirectory named `SDKs`. Then, place the extracted SDK under this new directory.
 For more information, see [SDK Extraction](../contrib/macdeploy/README.md#sdk-extraction).
 
-#### For Win64 cross compilation
+#### For Windows cross compilation using MSVCRT
 
     apt install g++-mingw-w64-x86-64-posix
 
+#### For Windows cross compilation using UCRT
+
+    apt install g++-mingw-w64-ucrt64
+
 #### For linux (including i386, ARM) cross compilation
 
 Common linux dependencies: