diff --git a/src/util/platform.cpp b/src/util/platform.cpp
index cf16691a..0b5553e8 100644
--- a/src/util/platform.cpp
+++ b/src/util/platform.cpp
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 #ifdef _WIN32
 #include <Windows.h>
+#pragma comment(lib, "winmm.lib")
 
 void platform::configure_encoding() {
     // set utf-8 encoding to console output