diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
index b4b62b9c38..3c19201e4c 100644
--- a/build.rs
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -48,6 +48,34 @@ fn main() {
     if let Some(rev) = git_revision_hash() {
         println!("cargo:rustc-env=RIPGREP_BUILD_GIT_HASH={}", rev);
     }
+    // Embed a Windows manifest and set some linker options. The main reason
+    // for this is to enable long path support on Windows. This still, I
+    // believe, requires enabling long path support in the registry. But if
+    // that's enabled, then this will let ripgrep use C:\... style paths that
+    // are longer than 260 characters.
+    set_windows_exe_options();
+}
+
+fn set_windows_exe_options() {
+    static MANIFEST: &str = "pkg/windows/Manifest.xml";
+
+    let Ok(target_os) = env::var("CARGO_CFG_TARGET_OS") else { return };
+    let Ok(target_env) = env::var("CARGO_CFG_TARGET_ENV") else { return };
+    if !(target_os == "windows" && target_env == "msvc") {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    let Ok(mut manifest) = env::current_dir() else { return };
+    manifest.push(MANIFEST);
+    let Some(manifest) = manifest.to_str() else { return };
+
+    println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed={}", MANIFEST);
+    // Embed the Windows application manifest file.
+    println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg-bin=ripgrep=/MANIFEST:EMBED");
+    println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg-bin=ripgrep=/MANIFESTINPUT:{manifest}");
+    // Turn linker warnings into errors. Helps debugging, otherwise the
+    // warnings get squashed (I believe).
+    println!("cargo:rustc-link-arg-bin=ripgrep=/WX");
 }
 
 fn git_revision_hash() -> Option<String> {
diff --git a/pkg/windows/Manifest.xml b/pkg/windows/Manifest.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b6f0e70277
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/windows/Manifest.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
+<!--
+This is a Windows application manifest file.
+See: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/application-manifests
+-->
+<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:asmv3="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
+    <!-- Versions rustc supports as compiler hosts -->
+    <compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
+        <application>
+            <!-- Windows 7 --><supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/>
+            <!-- Windows 8 --><supportedOS Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}"/>
+            <!-- Windows 8.1 --><supportedOS Id="{1f676c76-80e1-4239-95bb-83d0f6d0da78}"/>
+            <!-- Windows 10 and 11 --><supportedOS Id="{8e0f7a12-bfb3-4fe8-b9a5-48fd50a15a9a}"/>
+        </application>
+    </compatibility>
+    <!-- Use UTF-8 code page -->
+    <asmv3:application>
+        <asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2019/WindowsSettings">
+            <activeCodePage>UTF-8</activeCodePage>
+        </asmv3:windowsSettings>
+    </asmv3:application>
+    <!-- Remove (most) legacy path limits -->
+    <asmv3:application>
+        <asmv3:windowsSettings xmlns:ws2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2016/WindowsSettings">
+            <ws2:longPathAware>true</ws2:longPathAware>
+        </asmv3:windowsSettings>
+    </asmv3:application>
+</assembly>
diff --git a/pkg/windows/README.md b/pkg/windows/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7be701bf80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/windows/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+This directory contains a Windows manifest for various Windows-specific
+settings.
+
+The main thing we enable here is [`longPathAware`], which permits paths of the
+form `C:\` to be longer than 260 characters.
+
+The approach taken here was modeled off of a [similar change for `rustc`][rustc pr].
+In particular, this manifest gets linked into the final binary. Those linker
+arguments are applied in `build.rs`.
+
+This currently only applies to MSVC builds. If there's an easy way to make this
+apply to GNU builds as well, then patches are welcome.
+
+[`longPathAware`]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/application-manifests#longpathaware
+[rustc pr]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/96737