diff --git a/rebar.config b/rebar.config
index d6eb828..a058707 100644
--- a/rebar.config
+++ b/rebar.config
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@
 
     %% OS X Snow Leopard flags for 32-bit
     {"darwin10.*-32$", "CXXFLAGS", "-m32"},
-    {"darwin10.*-32$", "LDFLAGS", "-arch i386"}
+    {"darwin10.*-32$", "LDFLAGS", "-arch i386"},
+    
+    %% this will merge into basho/rebar/rebar.config eventually
+    {"win32", "CFLAGS", "/Wall /DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS /D_WIN32 /DWINDOWS"}
 ]}.