diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 86874c7915..014cf515a2 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ if (WIN32)
     if (MSVC)
         add_definitions(-D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS)
 
-        set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} /MP")
+        set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} /MP /openmp")
     endif()
 
     set(LIB_Ws2_32 Ws2_32)
diff --git a/cppan.yml b/cppan.yml
index 46edd7f39c..68865d4028 100644
--- a/cppan.yml
+++ b/cppan.yml
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ root_project: pvt.cppan.demo.google.tesseract
 common_settings:
     c++: 11
 
+    options:
+        any:
+            compiler_options:
+                msvc:
+                    private:
+                        - /openmp
+
 projects:
     libtesseract:
         type: lib