diff --git a/compat/vcbuild/find_vs_env.bat b/compat/vcbuild/find_vs_env.bat
index b35d264c0e6bed..379b16296e09c2 100644
--- a/compat/vcbuild/find_vs_env.bat
+++ b/compat/vcbuild/find_vs_env.bat
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ REM ================================================================
 
    SET sdk_dir=%WindowsSdkDir%
    SET sdk_ver=%WindowsSDKVersion%
+   SET sdk_ver_bin_dir=%WindowsSdkVerBinPath%%tgt%
    SET si=%sdk_dir%Include\%sdk_ver%
    SET sdk_includes=-I"%si%ucrt" -I"%si%um" -I"%si%shared"
    SET sl=%sdk_dir%lib\%sdk_ver%
@@ -130,6 +131,7 @@ REM ================================================================
 
    SET sdk_dir=%WindowsSdkDir%
    SET sdk_ver=%WindowsSDKVersion%
+   SET sdk_ver_bin_dir=%WindowsSdkVerBinPath%bin\amd64
    SET si=%sdk_dir%Include\%sdk_ver%
    SET sdk_includes=-I"%si%ucrt" -I"%si%um" -I"%si%shared" -I"%si%winrt"
    SET sl=%sdk_dir%lib\%sdk_ver%
@@ -160,6 +162,11 @@ REM ================================================================
    echo msvc_includes=%msvc_includes%
    echo msvc_libs=%msvc_libs%
 
+   echo sdk_ver_bin_dir=%sdk_ver_bin_dir%
+   SET X1=%sdk_ver_bin_dir:C:=/C%
+   SET X2=%X1:\=/%
+   echo sdk_ver_bin_dir_msys=%X2%
+
    echo sdk_includes=%sdk_includes%
    echo sdk_libs=%sdk_libs%
 
diff --git a/compat/vcbuild/scripts/rc.pl b/compat/vcbuild/scripts/rc.pl
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..7bca4cd81c6c63
--- /dev/null
+++ b/compat/vcbuild/scripts/rc.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+######################################################################
+# Compile Resources on Windows
+#
+# This is a wrapper to facilitate the compilation of Git with MSVC
+# using GNU Make as the build system. So, instead of manipulating the
+# Makefile into something nasty, just to support non-space arguments
+# etc, we use this wrapper to fix the command line options
+#
+######################################################################
+use strict;
+my @args = ();
+my @input = ();
+
+while (@ARGV) {
+	my $arg = shift @ARGV;
+	if ("$arg" =~ /^-[dD]/) {
+		# GIT_VERSION gets passed with too many
+		# layers of dquote escaping.
+		$arg =~ s/\\"/"/g;
+
+		push(@args, $arg);
+
+	} elsif ("$arg" eq "-i") {
+		my $arg = shift @ARGV;
+		# TODO complain if NULL or is dashed ??
+		push(@input, $arg);
+
+	} elsif ("$arg" eq "-o") {
+		my $arg = shift @ARGV;
+		# TODO complain if NULL or is dashed ??
+		push(@args, "-fo$arg");
+
+	} else {
+		push(@args, $arg);
+	}
+}
+
+push(@args, "-nologo");
+push(@args, "-v");
+push(@args, @input);
+
+unshift(@args, "rc.exe");
+printf("**** @args\n");
+
+exit (system(@args) != 0);
diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index 50ae76984d8a6e..b295799a439e26 100644
--- a/config.mak.uname
+++ b/config.mak.uname
@@ -426,7 +426,7 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
 	# link.exe next to, and required by, cl.exe, we have to prepend this
 	# onto the existing $PATH.
 	#
-	SANE_TOOL_PATH ?= $(msvc_bin_dir_msys)
+	SANE_TOOL_PATH ?= $(msvc_bin_dir_msys):$(sdk_ver_bin_dir_msys)
 	HAVE_ALLOCA_H = YesPlease
 	NO_PREAD = YesPlease
 	NEEDS_CRYPTO_WITH_SSL = YesPlease
@@ -495,6 +495,7 @@ endif
 	# See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms235330.aspx
 	EXTLIBS = user32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib wininet.lib ws2_32.lib invalidcontinue.obj kernel32.lib ntdll.lib
 	PTHREAD_LIBS =
+	RC = compat/vcbuild/scripts/rc.pl
 	lib =
 	BASIC_CFLAGS += $(vcpkg_inc) $(sdk_includes) $(msvc_includes)
 ifndef DEBUG