diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 03d31e2..57c7a00 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -86,10 +86,13 @@ set(SOURCES
 
 add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} ${SOURCES})
 
+set(windows_api "")
+
 if(WIN32 AND MSVC) # Limit assets embeding to msvc compilers only
     # such as clang-cl and MSVC (there exists no compiler of msvc flags
     # in the market except these two. Clang-cl is peak tho)
     target_sources(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE assets/resource.rc)
+    set(windows_api "kernel32.lib")
 endif()
 
 target_compile_definitions(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE 
@@ -102,9 +105,19 @@ target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME}
     "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/third_party"
 )
 
+if(WIN32) 
 target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE
+    ${windows_api}
     nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json
     ftxui::ftxui
     OpenSSL::SSL
     OpenSSL::Crypto
 )
+else()
+target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE
+    nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json
+    ftxui::ftxui
+    OpenSSL::SSL
+    OpenSSL::Crypto
+)
+endif()
diff --git a/src/settings_manager.cpp b/src/settings_manager.cpp
index 6425846..f9ded0f 100644
--- a/src/settings_manager.cpp
+++ b/src/settings_manager.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@
 #include <filesystem>
 #include <cstdlib>
 
+
+#ifdef _WIN32
+#include <windows.h>
+#endif
+
 settings_manager::settings_manager() {
     load();
 }
@@ -49,9 +54,13 @@ void settings_manager::set_logo(logo_style style) {
 std::string settings_manager::get_config_dir() const {
 #ifdef _WIN32
     // win32 default appdata
-    const char* appdata = std::getenv("APPDATA");
+    char* appdata = new char[MAX_PATH]; // MAX_PATH from windows
+    GetEnvironmentVariableA("APPDATA", appdata, MAX_PATH);
     if (appdata) {
-        return std::string(appdata) + "/tpedia";
+        std::string temp(appdata);
+        temp += "/tpedia";
+        delete appdata;
+        return temp;
     }
     return "./tpedia_config";
 #elif defined(__APPLE__)
@@ -118,4 +127,4 @@ void settings_manager::save() {
 
 settings_manager::logo_style settings_manager::logo() {
     return lgo;
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}