diff --git a/src/lsp.fch b/src/lsp.fch
index e6456bb..ea06340 100644
--- a/src/lsp.fch
+++ b/src/lsp.fch
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ fn parseDiag(str line) -> Diag {
 
 fn parseOutput(str output) -> Analysis {
     a := Analysis()
-    for line in output.split("\n") {
+    for line in output.replace("\r", "").split("\n") {       // Windows ends the compiler's lines with \r\n
         if line.starts_with("@") {
             f := splitTabs(line)
             tag := f[0]
diff --git a/tests/cross.sh b/tests/cross.sh
index c1ea693..c4ae87e 100755
--- a/tests/cross.sh
+++ b/tests/cross.sh
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ target=${1:?usage: tests/cross.sh windows|arm64}
 FINCH=${FINCH:-../build/finch}
 export WINEDEBUG=-all
 case $target in
-    windows) runner=wine; ext=.exe ;;
+    windows) runner=wine; ext=.exe
+             wine cmd /c exit > /dev/null 2>&1 || true ;;      # the first run sets Wine up and says so: not in a test's output
     arm64)   runner=qemu-aarch64; ext= ;;
     *) echo "unknown target $target"; exit 2 ;;
 esac