diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-linux.yml b/.github/workflows/release-linux.yml
index 596e04c..b7493f1 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-linux.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-linux.yml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ jobs:
       id: build
       run: |
         echo "starting to build..."
-        cmake --build build/linux-gcc
+        cmake --build build/linux-gcc --config Release
         export TAG_NAME=`git describe --tags`
         export TAG=${TAG_NAME#v}
         echo "tag:$TAG"
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ jobs:
         export ARCH_NAME=`uname -p`
         export FALCOR_PERF_TEST_PACKAGE=falcor_perf_test-${TAG}-${OS_NAME}-${ARCH_NAME}.zip
         echo "creating zip at ${FALCOR_PERF_TEST_PACKAGE}"
-        zip -r ${FALCOR_PERF_TEST_PACKAGE} build/linux-gcc/bin/Debug/*
+        zip -r ${FALCOR_PERF_TEST_PACKAGE} build/linux-gcc/bin/Release/*
         echo "FALCOR_PERF_TEST_PACKAGE=${FALCOR_PERF_TEST_PACKAGE}" >> $GITHUB_OUTPUT
     - name: Upload Assert
       uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-windows.yml b/.github/workflows/release-windows.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..788c8d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-windows.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+name: release-win64
+
+on:
+  push:
+    # Sequence of patterns matched against refs/tags
+    tags:
+    - 'v*' # Push events to matching v*, i.e. v1.0, v20.15.10
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+    - name: Setup Ninja
+      uses: ashutoshvarma/setup-ninja@master
+      with:
+        # ninja version to download. Default: 1.10.0
+        version: 1.10.0
+
+    - name: configure
+      run: cmake --preset windows-ninja-msvc
+    - name: make
+      id: build
+      run: |
+        echo "build app"
+        cmake --build build/windows-ninja-msvc --config Release
+        $tagName = & git describe --tags
+        $binArchive = "falcor_perf_test-$tagName-win-64.zip"
+        echo "package name=$binArchive"
+        echo "FALCOR_PERF_TEST_PACKAGE=$binArchive" >> $env:GITHUB_OUTPUT
+
+        7z a "$binArchive" build/windows-ninja-msvc/bin/Release/*
+    - name: UploadBinary
+      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
+      with:
+        files: |
+          ${{ sbuildteps..outputs.FALCOR_PERF_TEST_PACKAGE }}
diff --git a/source/CMakeLists.txt b/source/CMakeLists.txt
index 6938d1b..b8de763 100644
--- a/source/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/source/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -122,4 +122,4 @@ target_link_libraries(falcor_perftest
 set_target_properties(falcor_perftest PROPERTIES
     RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${FALCOR_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}
     LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${FALCOR_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY}
-)
+    SKIP_BUILD_RPATH TRUE)