diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 5f6d0deb..b9f711cf 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -17,3 +17,16 @@ linux:
     - curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
     - python -m pip install -e ".[dev]" pytest-custom-exit-code
     - python ./bin/run_tests.py
+
+windows:
+  image: mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1809
+  variables:
+    PYTEST_ADDOPTS: -k "unit_test or test_0_basic" --suppress-no-test-exit-code
+  before_script:
+    - choco install python -y --version 3.8.6
+  script:
+    - py -m cibuildwheel --output-dir wheelhouse --platform windows
+    - py -m pip install -e ".[dev]" pytest-custom-exit-code
+    - py bin\run_tests.py
+  tags:
+    - windows
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 19757bb1..f0f21427 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Usage
 | Travis CI       | ✅    |       | ✅      | ✅        |           |             |
 | AppVeyor        | ✅    | ✅    | ✅      |           | ✅²       | ✅⁴         |
 | CircleCI        | ✅    | ✅    |         | ✅        | ✅²       |             |
-| Gitlab CI       | ✅    |       |         |           |           |             |
+| Gitlab CI       | ✅    |       | ✅      | ✅¹       |           |             |
 | Cirrus CI       | ✅    | ✅³   | ✅      | ✅        | ✅        |             |
 
 <sup>¹ [Requires emulation](https://cibuildwheel.readthedocs.io/en/stable/faq/#emulation), distributed separately. Other services may also support Linux ARM through emulation or third-party build hosts, but these are not tested in our CI.</sup><br>
diff --git a/docs/data/projects.yml b/docs/data/projects.yml
index 7033357b..648bdb07 100644
--- a/docs/data/projects.yml
+++ b/docs/data/projects.yml
@@ -206,6 +206,12 @@
   ci: [github]
   os: [windows, apple, linux]
 
+- name: pybind11 cross build example
+  gh: wbarnha/pybind_cmake_example_crossbuild
+  ci: [github, gitlab]
+  os: [windows, apple, linux]
+  notes: Same as pybind11 cmake_example but used to demo Linux ARM + Windows + macOS builds on GitLab
+
 - name: iminuit
   gh: scikit-hep/iminuit
   ci: [github]
@@ -601,7 +607,7 @@
   gh: tensorchord/envd
   ci: [github]
   os: [apple, linux, windows]
-  note: A machine learning development environment build toool
+  note: A machine learning development environment build tool
 
 - name: mosec
   gh: mosecorg/mosec
diff --git a/examples/gitlab-minimal.yml b/examples/gitlab-minimal.yml
index cb1be4f9..f5883f61 100644
--- a/examples/gitlab-minimal.yml
+++ b/examples/gitlab-minimal.yml
@@ -17,3 +17,17 @@ linux:
   artifacts:
     paths:
       - wheelhouse/
+
+windows:
+  image: mcr.microsoft.com/windows/servercore:1809
+  before_script:
+    - choco install python -y --version 3.8.6
+    - choco install git.install -y
+    - py -m pip install cibuildwheel==2.10.2
+  script:
+    - py -m cibuildwheel --output-dir wheelhouse --platform windows
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - wheelhouse/
+  tags:
+    - windows
diff --git a/examples/gitlab-with-qemu.yml b/examples/gitlab-with-qemu.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1f5b11b4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/gitlab-with-qemu.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+linux:
+  image: python:3.8
+  # make a docker daemon available for cibuildwheel to use
+  services:
+    - name: docker:dind
+      entrypoint: ["env", "-u", "DOCKER_HOST"]
+      command: ["dockerd-entrypoint.sh"]
+  variables:
+    DOCKER_HOST: tcp://docker:2375/
+    DOCKER_DRIVER: overlay2
+    # See https://github.com/docker-library/docker/pull/166
+    DOCKER_TLS_CERTDIR: ""
+  script:
+    - curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
+    # Warning: This is extremely slow, be careful with how many wheels you build
+    - docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes
+    - python -m pip install cibuildwheel==2.10.2
+    # Assuming your CI runner's default architecture is x86_64...
+    - cibuildwheel --output-dir wheelhouse --platform linux --archs aarch64
+  artifacts:
+    paths:
+      - wheelhouse/