diff --git a/src/qtgui/recoll-win.pro b/src/qtgui/recoll-win.pro
index 0956ab81..f6f2ea83 100644
--- a/src/qtgui/recoll-win.pro
+++ b/src/qtgui/recoll-win.pro
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ windows {
     # MSVC
     RECOLLDEPS = ../../../recolldeps/msvc
     DEFINES += USING_STATIC_LIBICONV
+    SOURCES += ../windows/getopt.cc
     PRE_TARGETDEPS = \
       ../windows/build-librecoll-$$QCBUILDLOC-Release/release/librecoll.lib
     LIBS += \
diff --git a/src/windows/qmkrecoll/recollq.pro b/src/windows/qmkrecoll/recollq.pro
index 69f0530f..a10bee64 100644
--- a/src/windows/qmkrecoll/recollq.pro
+++ b/src/windows/qmkrecoll/recollq.pro
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ windows {
   contains(QMAKE_CC, cl){
     # Visual Studio
     RECOLLDEPS = ../../../../recolldeps/msvc
+    SOURCES += ../getopt.cc
     PRE_TARGETDEPS = \
       ../build-librecoll-Desktop_Qt_5_14_2_MSVC2017_32bit-Release/release/librecoll.lib
     LIBS += \