diff --git a/deps/patches/SuiteSparse-winclang.patch b/deps/patches/SuiteSparse-winclang.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..8bfb64dc27839
--- /dev/null
+++ b/deps/patches/SuiteSparse-winclang.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+--- SuiteSparse_config/SuiteSparse_config.h	2015-07-15 03:26:41.000000000 +0000
++++ SuiteSparse_config/SuiteSparse_config.h	2016-07-01 00:55:57.157465600 +0000
+@@ -54,7 +54,11 @@
+ #ifdef _WIN64
+ 
+ #define SuiteSparse_long __int64
++#ifdef _MSVC_VER
+ #define SuiteSparse_long_max _I64_MAX
++#else
++#define SuiteSparse_long_max LLONG_MAX
++#endif
+ #define SuiteSparse_long_idd "I64d"
+ 
+ #else
diff --git a/deps/suitesparse.mk b/deps/suitesparse.mk
index c8974b19fa47c..975572e762466 100644
--- a/deps/suitesparse.mk
+++ b/deps/suitesparse.mk
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ $(BUILDDIR)/SuiteSparse-$(SUITESPARSE_VER)/Makefile: $(SRCDIR)/srccache/SuiteSpa
 	$(TAR) -C $(dir $@) --strip-components 1 -zxf $<
 	touch -c $@
 
+$(BUILDDIR)/SuiteSparse-$(SUITESPARSE_VER)/SuiteSparse-winclang.patch-applied: $(BUILDDIR)/SuiteSparse-$(SUITESPARSE_VER)/Makefile
+	cd $(dir $@) && patch -p0 < $(SRCDIR)/patches/SuiteSparse-winclang.patch
+	echo 1 > $@
+
 ifeq ($(USE_ATLAS), 1)
 $(SUITESPARSE_OBJ_SOURCE): | $(ATLAS_OBJ_TARGET)
 endif
@@ -46,7 +50,7 @@ $(SUITESPARSE_OBJ_SOURCE): | $(OPENBLAS_OBJ_TARGET)
 else ifeq ($(USE_SYSTEM_LAPACK), 0)
 $(SUITESPARSE_OBJ_SOURCE): | $(LAPACK_OBJ_TARGET)
 endif
-$(SUITESPARSE_OBJ_SOURCE): $(BUILDDIR)/SuiteSparse-$(SUITESPARSE_VER)/Makefile
+$(SUITESPARSE_OBJ_SOURCE): $(BUILDDIR)/SuiteSparse-$(SUITESPARSE_VER)/Makefile $(BUILDDIR)/SuiteSparse-$(SUITESPARSE_VER)/SuiteSparse-winclang.patch-applied
 	$(MAKE) -C $(dir $<) library $(SUITESPARSE_MFLAGS)
 	touch -c $@
 $(BUILDDIR)/SuiteSparse-$(SUITESPARSE_VER)/checked: $(SUITESPARSE_OBJ_SOURCE)