diff --git a/ffi/examples/read-table/CMakeLists.txt b/ffi/examples/read-table/CMakeLists.txt
index 4c98ef3a..6533bf73 100644
--- a/ffi/examples/read-table/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/ffi/examples/read-table/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@ add_test(NAME read_and_print_basic_partitioned COMMAND ${TestRunner} ${DatPath}/
 
 if(WIN32)
   set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "/MT")
-  target_link_libraries(read_table PUBLIC ws2_32 userenv bcrypt ntdll)
+  target_link_libraries(read_table PUBLIC ws2_32 userenv bcrypt ncrypt crypt32 secur32 ntdll RuntimeObject)
 endif(WIN32)
 
 if(MSVC)
-  target_compile_options(read_table PRIVATE /W4 /WX)
+  target_compile_options(read_table PRIVATE /W3 /WX)
 else()
   # no-strict-prototypes because arrow headers have fn defs without prototypes
   target_compile_options(read_table PRIVATE -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Werror -Wno-strict-prototypes -g -fsanitize=address)
diff --git a/ffi/examples/read-table/README.md b/ffi/examples/read-table/README.md
index ebf90403..abe7b86b 100644
--- a/ffi/examples/read-table/README.md
+++ b/ffi/examples/read-table/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,44 @@
 read table
 ==========
 
-Simple example to show how to read and dump the data of a table using kernel's cffi, and arrow-glib
+Simple example to show how to read and dump the data of a table using kernel's cffi, and arrow-glib.
+
+# Building
+
+This example is built with [cmake]. Instructions below assume you start in the directory containing this README.
+
+## Linux / MacOS
+
+Most likely something like this should work:
+```
+$ mkdir build
+$ cd build
+$ cmake ..
+$ make
+$ ./read_table [path/to/table]
+```
+
+## Windows
+
+For windows, assuming you already have a working cmake + c toolchain:
+```
+PS mkdir build
+PS cd build
+PS cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" ..
+PS cmake --build .
+PS .\Debug\read_table.exe [path\to\table]
+```
+
+If running on windows you should also run `chcp.exe 65001` to set the codepage to utf-8, or things
+won't print out correctly.
+
+## Arrow GLib
+This example uses the `arrow-glib (c)` component from arrow to print out data. This requires
+_installing_ that component which can be non-trivial. Please see
+[here](https://arrow.apache.org/install/) to find installation instructions for your system.
+
+If you don't want to have to install this, you can run `ccmake ..` (`cmake-gui.exe ..` on windows)
+from the `build` directory, and turn `OFF`/uncheckmark `PRINT_DATA`. Then "configure" and
+"generate" and follow the above instructions again.
+
+[cmake]: https://cmake.org/
diff --git a/ffi/examples/read-table/arrow.c b/ffi/examples/read-table/arrow.c
index 63966f45..0aeedc13 100644
--- a/ffi/examples/read-table/arrow.c
+++ b/ffi/examples/read-table/arrow.c
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ static GArrowRecordBatch* add_partition_columns(
   gint64 cols = garrow_record_batch_get_n_columns(record_batch);
   GArrowRecordBatch* cur_record_batch = record_batch;
   GError* error = NULL;
-  for (int i = 0; i < partition_cols->len; i++) {
+  for (uintptr_t i = 0; i < partition_cols->len; i++) {
     char* col = partition_cols->cols[i];
     guint pos = cols + i;
     KernelStringSlice key = { col, strlen(col) };
diff --git a/ffi/examples/read-table/read_table.c b/ffi/examples/read-table/read_table.c
index e73d7c85..b40f7a0d 100644
--- a/ffi/examples/read-table/read_table.c
+++ b/ffi/examples/read-table/read_table.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ void print_selection_vector(const char* indent, const KernelBoolSlice* selection
 void print_partition_info(struct EngineContext* context, const CStringMap* partition_values)
 {
 #ifdef VERBOSE
-  for (int i = 0; i < context->partition_cols->len; i++) {
+  for (uintptr_t i = 0; i < context->partition_cols->len; i++) {
     char* col = context->partition_cols->cols[i];
     KernelStringSlice key = { col, strlen(col) };
     char* partition_val = get_from_map(partition_values, key, allocate_string);
@@ -79,6 +79,18 @@ EngineError* allocate_error(KernelError etype, const KernelStringSlice msg)
   return (EngineError*)error;
 }
 
+#ifdef WIN32 // windows doesn't have strndup
+char *strndup(const char *s, size_t n) {
+  size_t len = strnlen(s, n);
+  char *p = malloc(len + 1);
+  if (p) {
+    memcpy(p, s, len);
+    p[len] = '\0';
+  }
+  return p;
+}
+#endif
+
 // utility to turn a slice into a char*
 void* allocate_string(const KernelStringSlice slice)
 {
@@ -165,7 +177,7 @@ void visit_partition(void* context, const KernelStringSlice partition)
 PartitionList* get_partition_list(SharedGlobalScanState* state)
 {
   print_diag("Building list of partition columns\n");
-  int count = get_partition_column_count(state);
+  uintptr_t count = get_partition_column_count(state);
   PartitionList* list = malloc(sizeof(PartitionList));
   // We set the `len` to 0 here and use it to track how many items we've added to the list
   list->len = 0;
@@ -184,7 +196,7 @@ PartitionList* get_partition_list(SharedGlobalScanState* state)
   }
   if (list->len > 0) {
     print_diag("Partition columns are:\n");
-    for (int i = 0; i < list->len; i++) {
+    for (uintptr_t i = 0; i < list->len; i++) {
       print_diag("  - %s\n", list->cols[i]);
     }
   } else {
@@ -195,7 +207,7 @@ PartitionList* get_partition_list(SharedGlobalScanState* state)
 }
 
 void free_partition_list(PartitionList* list) {
-  for (int i = 0; i < list->len; i++) {
+  for (uintptr_t i = 0; i < list->len; i++) {
     free(list->cols[i]);
   }
   free(list->cols);
diff --git a/ffi/examples/read-table/read_table.h b/ffi/examples/read-table/read_table.h
index 8e40a988..d3fe5ff9 100644
--- a/ffi/examples/read-table/read_table.h
+++ b/ffi/examples/read-table/read_table.h
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 // A list of partition column names
 typedef struct PartitionList
 {
-  int len;
+  uintptr_t len;
   char** cols;
 } PartitionList;