diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index eb068fef0..b470dcda7 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@
 [submodule "lib/signals"]
 	path = lib/signals
 	url = https://github.com/pajlada/signals.git
+[submodule "lib/rapidjson"]
+	path = lib/rapidjson
+	url = https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson.git
diff --git a/dependencies/rapidjson.pri b/dependencies/rapidjson.pri
index 486dae406..1111cfc47 100644
--- a/dependencies/rapidjson.pri
+++ b/dependencies/rapidjson.pri
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # rapidjson
 win32 {
-    INCLUDEPATH += C:/local/rapidjson/include/
+    INCLUDEPATH += $$PWD/../lib/rapidjson/include/
 }
diff --git a/lib/rapidjson b/lib/rapidjson
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..f54b0e47a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/rapidjson
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit f54b0e47a08782a6131cc3d60f94d038fa6e0a51