From 54367ea76478e62c701aeb36da91b13fa397ef16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Zaiming (Stone) Shi" <zmstone@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 08:59:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add a note to Windows.md

---
 Windows.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Windows.md b/Windows.md
index 1e72b1982..a3e5deb11 100644
--- a/Windows.md
+++ b/Windows.md
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ Cygwin is what we tested with.
   Start (restart) CMD or powershell console and execute `which bash`, it should
   print out `/usr/bin/bash`
 
+NOTE: Make sure cygwin's bin dir is added before `C:\Windows\system32` in `Path`,
+otherwise the build scripts may end up using binaries from wsl instead of cygwin.
+
 ### Other tools
 
 Some of the unix world tools are required to build EMQX.  Including: