diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f58ac4ff0f09e..952e5a0f89834 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1075,7 +1075,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "smallvec",
  "smartstring",
  "textwrap",
- "toml",
+ "toml 0.7.6",
  "tree-sitter",
  "unicode-general-category",
  "unicode-segmentation",
@@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "tempfile",
  "threadpool",
- "toml",
+ "toml 0.7.6",
  "tree-sitter",
  "which",
 ]
@@ -1187,9 +1187,10 @@ dependencies = [
  "tempfile",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "toml",
+ "toml 0.7.6",
  "url",
  "which",
+ "winres",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1252,7 +1253,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "slotmap",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
- "toml",
+ "toml 0.7.6",
  "url",
  "which",
 ]
@@ -2140,6 +2141,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "toml"
+version = "0.5.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f4f7f0dd8d50a853a531c426359045b1998f04219d88799810762cd4ad314234"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
 version = "0.7.6"
@@ -2600,6 +2610,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winres"
+version = "0.1.12"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b68db261ef59e9e52806f688020631e987592bd83619edccda9c47d42cde4f6c"
+dependencies = [
+ "toml 0.5.11",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "xtask"
 version = "23.10.0"
@@ -2608,7 +2627,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "helix-loader",
  "helix-term",
  "helix-view",
- "toml",
+ "toml 0.7.6",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/contrib/helix-256p.ico b/contrib/helix-256p.ico
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..16781cc10b53d
Binary files /dev/null and b/contrib/helix-256p.ico differ
diff --git a/helix-term/Cargo.toml b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
index 4ff7fc0b1798c..f9c2b9df03ba6 100644
--- a/helix-term/Cargo.toml
+++ b/helix-term/Cargo.toml
@@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ crossterm = { version = "0.27", features = ["event-stream", "use-dev-tty"] }
 [build-dependencies]
 helix-loader = { path = "../helix-loader" }
 
+[target.'cfg(windows)'.build-dependencies]
+# winres to inject icon into Windows binary
+winres = "0.1.12"
+
 [dev-dependencies]
 smallvec = "1.11"
 indoc = "2.0.4"
diff --git a/helix-term/build.rs b/helix-term/build.rs
index b47dae8ef6530..7e7409f16decf 100644
--- a/helix-term/build.rs
+++ b/helix-term/build.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use helix_loader::grammar::{build_grammars, fetch_grammars};
+extern crate winres;
 
 fn main() {
     if std::env::var("HELIX_DISABLE_AUTO_GRAMMAR_BUILD").is_err() {
@@ -6,4 +7,9 @@ fn main() {
         build_grammars(Some(std::env::var("TARGET").unwrap()))
             .expect("Failed to compile tree-sitter grammars");
     }
+    if cfg!(target_os = "windows") {
+        let mut res = winres::WindowsResource::new();
+        res.set_icon("../contrib/helix-256p.ico");
+        res.compile().unwrap();
+    }
 }