diff --git a/src/cpp/subprocess/environ.cpp b/src/cpp/subprocess/environ.cpp
index 52fb88a..4f81e0f 100644
--- a/src/cpp/subprocess/environ.cpp
+++ b/src/cpp/subprocess/environ.cpp
@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@
 #include "utf8_to_utf16.hpp"
 using std::to_string;
 
-extern "C" char **environ;
+#if !defined(_DCRTIMP)     // Windows-specific RTL DLL import macro
+#define _DCRTIMP
+#endif
+
+extern "C" _DCRTIMP char **environ;
 
 namespace subprocess {
     Environ cenv;
@@ -131,4 +135,4 @@ namespace subprocess {
         result += (char16_t)'\0';
         return result;
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}