diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e840c15f..7a7ef539 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ script:
    if [ "${TARGET}" == "amd64" ]; then
      GOARCH="${TARGET}" ./test.sh
    else
-     GOARCH="${TARGET}" ./build.sh
+     GOARCH="${TARGET}" ./build_linux.sh
    fi
 
 notifications:
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 6254ad02..6bd67e4c 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ are very busy and read the mailing lists.
 
 ## Building
 
-Each plugin is compiled simply with `go build`.  A script, `build.sh`,
-is supplied which will build all the plugins in the repo.
+Each plugin is compiled simply with `go build`.  Two scripts, `build_linux.sh` and `build_windows.sh`,
+are supplied which will build all the plugins for their respective OS.
 
 ## Contribution workflow
 
diff --git a/build.sh b/build_linux.sh
similarity index 76%
rename from build.sh
rename to build_linux.sh
index 6db861a5..ddae34b4 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build_linux.sh
@@ -24,15 +24,9 @@ PLUGINS="plugins/meta/* plugins/main/* plugins/ipam/* plugins/sample"
 for d in $PLUGINS; do
 	if [ -d "$d" ]; then
 		plugin="$(basename "$d")"
-		if [ $plugin == "windows" ]
-		then
-			if [ "$GOARCH" == "amd64" ]
-			then
-				GOOS=windows . $d/build.sh
-			fi
-		else
+		if [ $plugin != "windows" ]; then
 			echo "  $plugin"
-		        $GO build -o "${PWD}/bin/$plugin" "$@" "$REPO_PATH"/$d
+			$GO build -o "${PWD}/bin/$plugin" "$@" "$REPO_PATH"/$d
 		fi
 	fi
 done
diff --git a/build_windows.sh b/build_windows.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..02b946f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_windows.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+cd $(dirname "$0")
+
+ORG_PATH="github.com/containernetworking"
+export REPO_PATH="${ORG_PATH}/plugins"
+
+if [ ! -h gopath/src/${REPO_PATH} ]; then
+	mkdir -p gopath/src/${ORG_PATH}
+	ln -s ../../../.. gopath/src/${REPO_PATH} || exit 255
+fi
+
+export GOPATH=${PWD}/gopath
+export GO="${GO:-go}"
+export GOOS=windows
+
+PLUGINS=$(cat plugins/windows_only.txt)
+for d in $PLUGINS; do
+  if [ -d "$d" ]; then
+    plugin="$(basename "$d").exe"
+    echo "  $plugin"
+    $GO build -o "${PWD}/bin/$plugin" "$@" "$REPO_PATH"/$d
+  fi
+done
diff --git a/scripts/release.sh b/scripts/release.sh
index 0956e9b8..bd59ba0e 100755
--- a/scripts/release.sh
+++ b/scripts/release.sh
@@ -19,15 +19,26 @@ docker run -v ${SRC_DIR}:/go/src/github.com/containernetworking/plugins --rm gol
 /bin/sh -xe -c "\
     apk --no-cache add bash tar;
     cd /go/src/github.com/containernetworking/plugins; umask 0022;
+
     for arch in amd64 arm arm64 ppc64le s390x; do \
         rm -f ${OUTPUT_DIR}/*; \
-        CGO_ENABLED=0 GOARCH=\$arch ./build.sh ${BUILDFLAGS}; \
+        CGO_ENABLED=0 GOARCH=\$arch ./build_linux.sh ${BUILDFLAGS}; \
         for format in tgz; do \
-            FILENAME=cni-plugins-\$arch-${TAG}.\$format; \
+            FILENAME=cni-plugins-linux-\$arch-${TAG}.\$format; \
             FILEPATH=${RELEASE_DIR}/\$FILENAME; \
             tar -C ${OUTPUT_DIR} --owner=0 --group=0 -caf \$FILEPATH .; \
         done; \
     done;
+
+    rm -rf ${OUTPUT_DIR}/*; \
+    CGO_ENABLED=0 GOARCH=amd64 ./build_windows.sh ${BUILDFLAGS}; \
+    for format in tgz; do \
+        FILENAME=cni-plugins-windows-amd64-${TAG}.\$format; \
+        FILEPATH=${RELEASE_DIR}/\$FILENAME; \
+        tar -C ${OUTPUT_DIR} --owner=0 --group=0 -caf \$FILEPATH .; \
+    done;
+
+
     cd ${RELEASE_DIR};
       for f in *.tgz; do sha1sum \$f > \$f.sha1; done;
       for f in *.tgz; do sha256sum \$f > \$f.sha256; done;
diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
index 0c48852d..34b64f80 100755
--- a/test.sh
+++ b/test.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #
 set -e
 
-source ./build.sh
+source ./build_linux.sh
 
 echo "Running tests"