diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 1b4b86df..500c6c98 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ ifdef COMSPEC
   OBJRES = $(OBJDIR)/winres.o
   CFGOBJRES = $(OBJDIR)/wincfgres.o
   PLATFORM = win32 #no uname so we'll do that ourselve
+  PLATFORMFILES = SDL.dll SDL_image.dll libpng13.dll zlib1.dll #some misc files we have to add to the release archive
 else
 
   PLATFORM = $(shell uname)
@@ -163,7 +164,7 @@ release : $(BIN) $(CFGBIN)
 # A release zip archive
 ziprelease: version $(BIN) $(BINCFG) release
 	tar cvzf src-svn`svnversion | sed 's/:/-/'`.tgz *.c *.h Makefile Makefile.dep gfx2.ico gfx2cfg.ico
-	zip grafx2-svn`svnversion | sed 's/:/-/'`$(TTFLABEL)-$(PLATFORM).zip $(BIN) $(CFGBIN) gfx2.dat gfx2.gif gfx2cfg.gif doc/gpl-2.0.txt SDL.dll fonts/8pxfont.png SDL_image.dll zlib1.dll libpng13.dll $(TTFLIBS) doc/README-zlib1.txt doc/README-SDL.txt doc/README-SDL_image.txt doc/README-SDL_ttf.txt fonts/Tuffy.ttf src-svn`svnversion | sed 's/:/-/'`.tgz
+	zip grafx2-svn`svnversion | sed 's/:/-/'`$(TTFLABEL)-$(PLATFORM).zip $(BIN) $(CFGBIN) gfx2.dat gfx2.gif gfx2cfg.gif doc/gpl-2.0.txt fonts/8pxfont.png $(TTFLIBS) doc/README-zlib1.txt doc/README-SDL.txt doc/README-SDL_image.txt doc/README-SDL_ttf.txt fonts/Tuffy.ttf src-svn`svnversion | sed 's/:/-/'`.tgz $(PLATFORMFILES)
 	$(DELCOMMAND) src-svn`svnversion | sed 's/:/-/'`.tgz
 	tar cvzf grafx2-svn`svnversion | sed 's/:/-/'`$(TTFLABEL)-src.tgz *.c *.h Makefile Makefile.dep gfx2.dat gfx2.ico gfx2.gif gfx2cfg.gif doc/gpl-2.0.txt fonts/8pxfont.png fonts/Tuffy.ttf