diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 8e802a76..9924608a 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@
 [submodule "third-party/nlohmann-json"]
 	path = third-party/nlohmann-json
 	url = https://github.com/nlohmann/json.git
+[submodule "third-party/msvc-redist-helper"]
+	path = third-party/msvc-redist-helper
+	url = https://github.com/Xaymar/msvc-redist-helper.git
diff --git a/third-party/msvc-redist-helper.exe b/templates/msvc-redist-helper.exe
similarity index 100%
rename from third-party/msvc-redist-helper.exe
rename to templates/msvc-redist-helper.exe
diff --git a/third-party/msvc-redist-helper b/third-party/msvc-redist-helper
new file mode 160000
index 00000000..aa4665cc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third-party/msvc-redist-helper
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit aa4665ccf68a382f1c2b115fb6c9668b6a8bd64d