diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 260da9e..e6d394d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -290,11 +290,15 @@ Building the testsuite requires CppUnit and Qt 5.8 or higher.
 1. Get the sources. For the latest version from Git clone the following repositories:
    ```
    cd $SOURCES
-   git clone https://github.com/Martchus/cpp-utilities.git c++utilities
-   git clone https://github.com/Martchus/qtutilities.git
-   git clone https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray.git
-   git clone https://github.com/Martchus/subdirs.git
+   git clone -c core.symlinks=true https://github.com/Martchus/cpp-utilities.git c++utilities
+   git clone -c core.symlinks=true https://github.com/Martchus/qtutilities.git
+   git clone -c core.symlinks=true https://github.com/Martchus/syncthingtray.git
+   git clone -c core.symlinks=true https://github.com/Martchus/subdirs.git
    ```
+   Note that `-c core.symlinks=true` is only required under Windows to handle symlinks correctly.
+   This requires a recent Git version and a filesystem which supports symlinks (NTFS works).
+   If you run into "not found" errors on symlink creation use `git reset --hard` within the repository to
+   fix this.
 2. Configure the build
    ```
    cd $BUILD_DIR