diff --git a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_clang.py b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_clang.py
index 5b32796202..2b7eb54952 100644
--- a/tinygrad/runtime/ops_clang.py
+++ b/tinygrad/runtime/ops_clang.py
@@ -1,17 +1,22 @@
-import os, time, ctypes, hashlib, subprocess, platform
+import os, time, ctypes, hashlib, subprocess, platform, tempfile
 from tinygrad.ops import Compiled
 from tinygrad.runtime.lib import RawMallocBuffer
 from tinygrad.codegen.cstyle import CStyleCodegen, CStyleLanguage
 
+args = {
+  'Windows': {'cflags':'', 'ext':'dll', 'exp':'__declspec(dllexport)'},
+  'Linux': {'cflags':'-lm -fPIC --rtlib=compiler-rt ', 'ext':'so', 'exp':''},
+  'Darwin': {'cflags':'-lm -fPIC --rtlib=compiler-rt ', 'ext':'dylib', 'exp':''}
+}[platform.system()]
+
 class ClangProgram:
   def __init__(self, name:str, prg:str):
-    prg = "#include <math.h>\n#define max(x,y) ((x>y)?x:y)\n#define int64 long\n#define half __fp16\n#define uchar unsigned char\n#define bool uchar\n" + prg
+    prg = '#include <math.h>\n#define max(x,y) ((x>y)?x:y)\n#define int64 long\n#define half __fp16\n#define uchar unsigned char\n#define bool uchar\n' + prg
     # TODO: is there a way to not write this to disk?
-    fn = f"/tmp/clang_{hashlib.md5(prg.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()}.{'dylib' if platform.system() == 'Darwin' else 'so'}"
-    # NOTE: --rtlib=compiler-rt fixes float16 on Linux, it defines __gnu_h2f_ieee and __gnu_f2h_ieee
+    fn = f"{tempfile.gettempdir()}/clang_{hashlib.md5(prg.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()}.{args['ext']}"
     if not os.path.exists(fn):
-      subprocess.check_output(['clang', '-shared', '-O2', '-Wall','-Werror', '-lm', '--rtlib=compiler-rt', '-fPIC', '-x', 'c', '-', '-o', fn+".tmp"], input=prg.encode('utf-8'))
-      os.rename(fn+".tmp", fn)
+      subprocess.check_output(args=('clang -shared -O2 -Wall -Werror -x c '+args['cflags']+' - -o '+fn+'.tmp').split(), input=prg.encode('utf-8'))
+      os.rename(fn+'.tmp', fn)
     self.lib = ctypes.CDLL(fn)
     self.fxn = self.lib[name]
 
@@ -21,7 +26,7 @@ class ClangProgram:
     if wait: return time.monotonic()-st
 
 class ClangCodegen(CStyleCodegen):
-  lang = CStyleLanguage(buffer_suffix=" restrict")
+  lang = CStyleLanguage(kernel_prefix=args['exp'], buffer_suffix=" restrict")
   supports_float4: bool = False
 
 ClangBuffer = Compiled(RawMallocBuffer, ClangCodegen, ClangProgram)