From 54433a7752eb50ab259469363df7b4a7bfc83bc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Wojtulewicz <tim@corelight.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 10:55:13 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add section about building for Windows to README

---
 README.md | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b3f9a03f..a5784f85 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -74,6 +74,13 @@ Selected `configure` options (see `--help` for more):
 
 On macOS with Homebrew, use `--with-openssl={/usr/local,/opt/homebrew}/opt/openssl@1.1`
 
+##### Windows
+
+For Windows builds, any recent version of Visual Studio will work. You will need
+to pass `-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="3rdparty/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"`
+to the CMake invocation. This will make vcpkg install the proper dependencies for
+the build.
+
 #### Usage
 
 On all endpoints, run as `root`: