diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index f1a70f41..b1e05423 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -82,3 +82,6 @@
 [submodule "third_party/fdk-aac"]
 	path = third_party/fdk-aac
 	url = https://github.com/Panda3DS-emu/fdk-aac/
+[submodule "third_party/cryptoppwin"]
+	path = third_party/cryptoppwin
+	url = https://github.com/shadps4-emu/ext-cryptoppwin
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 051831e0..280abf0c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -127,7 +127,6 @@ include_directories(third_party/elfio/)
 include_directories(third_party/hips/include/)
 include_directories(third_party/imgui/)
 include_directories(third_party/dynarmic/src)
-include_directories(third_party/cryptopp/)
 include_directories(third_party/cityhash/include)
 include_directories(third_party/result/include)
 include_directories(third_party/xxhash/include)
@@ -183,10 +182,21 @@ if(ANDROID)
     target_link_libraries(AlberCore PRIVATE EGL log)
 endif()
 
-set(CRYPTOPP_BUILD_TESTING OFF)
-add_subdirectory(third_party/cryptopp)
 add_subdirectory(third_party/glad)
 
+# Cryptopp doesn't support compiling under clang-cl, so we have to include it as a prebuilt MSVC static library
+if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "Clang" AND MSVC)
+    add_subdirectory(third_party/cryptoppwin)
+    include_directories(third_party/cryptoppwin/include)
+    target_link_libraries(AlberCore PRIVATE cryptoppwin)
+else()
+    set(CRYPTOPP_BUILD_TESTING OFF)
+
+    add_subdirectory(third_party/cryptopp)
+    include_directories(third_party/cryptopp)
+    target_link_libraries(AlberCore PRIVATE cryptopp)
+endif()
+
 if(ENABLE_LUAJIT)
     add_subdirectory(third_party/LuaJIT luajit)
     include_directories(third_party/LuaJIT/src ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/luajit)
@@ -577,7 +587,7 @@ set(ALL_SOURCES ${SOURCE_FILES} ${FS_SOURCE_FILES} ${CRYPTO_SOURCE_FILES} ${KERN
     ${AUDIO_SOURCE_FILES} ${HEADER_FILES} ${FRONTEND_HEADER_FILES})
 target_sources(AlberCore PRIVATE ${ALL_SOURCES})
 
-target_link_libraries(AlberCore PRIVATE dynarmic cryptopp glad resources_console_fonts teakra fdk-aac)
+target_link_libraries(AlberCore PRIVATE dynarmic glad resources_console_fonts teakra fdk-aac)
 target_link_libraries(AlberCore PUBLIC glad capstone fmt::fmt)
 
 if(ENABLE_DISCORD_RPC AND NOT ANDROID)
diff --git a/third_party/cryptoppwin b/third_party/cryptoppwin
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..bc3441dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/cryptoppwin
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit bc3441dd2d6a9728e747dc0180bc8b9065a2923c