diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c7b9adf7..b23141a5 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ option(BUILD_TESTING "build test cases" OFF)
 option(CRYFS_UPDATE_CHECKS "let cryfs check for updates and security vulnerabilities" ON)
 option(DISABLE_OPENMP "allow building without OpenMP libraries. This will cause performance degradations." OFF)
 
+if (MSVC)
+    option(DOKAN_LIB_PATH "Location of the Dokan library, e.g. C:\\Program Files\\Dokan\\DokanLibrary-1.1.0" "")
+endif()
+
 # Default value is to build in release mode
 if(NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
     set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Release CACHE INTERNAL "CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE")
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4ae4f69e..1aa20cb4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -71,6 +71,16 @@ You can pass the following variables to the *cmake* command (using *-Dvariablena
  - **-DBUILD_TESTING**=[on|off]: Whether to build the test cases (can take a long time). Default: off
  - **-DCRYFS_UPDATE_CHECKS**=off: Build a CryFS that doesn't check online for updates and security vulnerabilities.
 
+Building on Windows (experimental)
+---------------
+
+Build with Visual Studio 2017 and pass in the following flags to CMake:
+
+  -DDOKAN_LIB_PATH=[dokan library location, e.g. "C:\Program Files\Dokan\DokanLibrary-1.1.0"]
+  -DCURL_LIBRARY=[path to libcurl.dll.a, e.g. "C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\curl\tools\curl-7.61.1-win64-mingw\lib\libcurl.dll.a"]
+  -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR=[path to libcurl include files, e.g. "C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\curl\tools\curl-7.61.1-win64-mingw\include"]
+  -DBOOST_ROOT=[path to root of boost installation]
+
 Troubleshooting
 ---------------
 
diff --git a/src/fspp/fuse/CMakeLists.txt b/src/fspp/fuse/CMakeLists.txt
index a7b31caf..114d7132 100644
--- a/src/fspp/fuse/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/fspp/fuse/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,12 +15,17 @@ target_add_boost(${PROJECT_NAME} filesystem system thread chrono)
 target_enable_style_warnings(${PROJECT_NAME})
 target_activate_cpp14(${PROJECT_NAME})
 
-if(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
+if(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Windows")
+  target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC "${DOKAN_LIB_PATH}\\include")
+  target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC "${DOKAN_LIB_PATH}\\lib\\dokan1.lib")
+  #target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC "${DOKAN_LIB_PATH}\\lib\\dokannp1.lib")
+  target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC "${DOKAN_LIB_PATH}\\lib\\dokanfuse1.lib")
+elseif(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
   set(CMAKE_FIND_FRAMEWORK LAST)
-  set(FUSE_LIB_NAME "osxfuse")
-else(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
-  set(FUSE_LIB_NAME "fuse")
-endif(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
+  find_library_with_path(FUSE "osxfuse" FUSE_LIB_PATH)
+  target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC ${FUSE})
+else() # Linux
+  find_library_with_path(FUSE "fuse" FUSE_LIB_PATH)
+  target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC ${FUSE})
+endif()
 
-find_library_with_path(FUSE ${FUSE_LIB_NAME} FUSE_LIB_PATH)
-target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PUBLIC ${FUSE})