diff --git a/BUILD.md b/BUILD.md
index f5de7cb..20d3ca3 100644
--- a/BUILD.md
+++ b/BUILD.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ cargo build --release --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
 
 Cross compiling to Windows is pretty straight forward.
 
+> Note: this is only for cross compiling a Windows build from Linux. To build from Windows, you should only need to run `cargo build --release`.
+
 ```bash
 rustup target add x86_64-pc-windows-gnu
 sudo dnf install mingw64-gcc