diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 86fc3c1b..11cb5a6a 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ target_link_libraries(popsift
 set_target_properties(popsift PROPERTIES VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION})
 set_target_properties(popsift PROPERTIES DEBUG_POSTFIX "d")
 set_target_properties(popsift PROPERTIES CUDA_SEPARABLE_COMPILATION ON)
+if(MSVC)
+        target_compile_options(popsift PRIVATE $<$<COMPILE_LANGUAGE:CUDA>:-Xcompiler=/Zc:preprocessor>)
+endif()
 
 # build directory containing the automatically generated files
 set(popsift_generated_dir "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/generated")