diff --git a/src/output_syslog.go b/src/output_syslog_linux.go
similarity index 100%
rename from src/output_syslog.go
rename to src/output_syslog_linux.go
diff --git a/src/output_syslog_nonlinux.go b/src/output_syslog_nonlinux.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..46a973f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/output_syslog_nonlinux.go
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+// +build !linux
+
+// This entire file is a dummy one to make sure all our cross platform builds work even if the underlying OS doesn't suppot some of the functionality
+// afpacket is a Linux-only feature, so we want the relevant function to technically "translate" to something here, which basically returns an error
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	log "github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+)
+
+var syslog struct {
+	Writer      bool
+	Dial        bool
+	LOG_WARNING bool
+	LOG_DAEMON  bool
+}
+
+func syslogOutput(sysConfig syslogConfig) {
+	log.Error("No Syslog is supported in Windows")
+}