diff --git a/ports/zstd/fix-windows-rc-compile.patch b/ports/zstd/fix-windows-rc-compile.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7abde73919
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/zstd/fix-windows-rc-compile.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/build/cmake/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/build/cmake/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+index 5d514ccb..dd79efb7 100644
+--- a/build/cmake/lib/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/build/cmake/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ set(PUBLIC_INCLUDE_DIRS ${LIBRARY_DIR})
+ set(library_targets)
+ if (ZSTD_BUILD_SHARED)
+     add_library(libzstd_shared SHARED ${Sources} ${Headers} ${PlatformDependResources})
+-    target_include_directories(libzstd_shared INTERFACE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${PUBLIC_INCLUDE_DIRS}>)
++    target_include_directories(libzstd_shared PUBLIC $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${PUBLIC_INCLUDE_DIRS}>)
+     list(APPEND library_targets libzstd_shared)
+     if (ZSTD_MULTITHREAD_SUPPORT)
+         set_property(TARGET libzstd_shared APPEND PROPERTY COMPILE_DEFINITIONS "ZSTD_MULTITHREAD")
diff --git a/ports/zstd/portfile.cmake b/ports/zstd/portfile.cmake
index 86c59cfb89..8b6058f3dd 100644
--- a/ports/zstd/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/zstd/portfile.cmake
@@ -2,11 +2,12 @@ vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO facebook/zstd
     REF "v${VERSION}"
-    SHA512 356994e0d8188ce97590bf86b602eb50cbcb2f951594afb9c2d6e03cc68f966862505afc4a50e76efd55e4cfb11dbc9b15c7837b7827a961a1311ef72cd23505
+    SHA512 ca12dffd86618ca008e1ecc79056c1129cb4e61668bf13a3cd5b2fa5c93bc9c92c80f64c1870c68b9c20009d9b3a834eac70db72242d5106125a1c53cccf8de8
     HEAD_REF dev
     PATCHES
         no-static-suffix.patch
         fix-emscripten-and-clang-cl.patch
+        fix-windows-rc-compile.patch
 )
 
 string(COMPARE EQUAL "${VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE}" "static" ZSTD_BUILD_STATIC)
diff --git a/ports/zstd/usage b/ports/zstd/usage
index f01a2f5cfb..ea1dc0ac78 100644
--- a/ports/zstd/usage
+++ b/ports/zstd/usage
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-The package zstd provides CMake targets:
+zstd provides CMake targets:
 
-    find_package(zstd CONFIG REQUIRED)
-    target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE $<IF:$<TARGET_EXISTS:zstd::libzstd_shared>,zstd::libzstd_shared,zstd::libzstd_static>)
+  find_package(zstd CONFIG REQUIRED)
+  target_link_libraries(main PRIVATE zstd::libzstd)
diff --git a/ports/zstd/vcpkg.json b/ports/zstd/vcpkg.json
index 2baf0003b9..db3c87d44d 100644
--- a/ports/zstd/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/zstd/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "zstd",
-  "version": "1.5.5",
-  "port-version": 2,
+  "version": "1.5.6",
   "description": "Zstandard - Fast real-time compression algorithm",
   "homepage": "https://facebook.github.io/zstd/",
   "license": "BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0-only",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 76afd11dc0..1842e5f756 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -9641,8 +9641,8 @@
       "port-version": 0
     },
     "zstd": {
-      "baseline": "1.5.5",
-      "port-version": 2
+      "baseline": "1.5.6",
+      "port-version": 0
     },
     "zstr": {
       "baseline": "1.0.7",
diff --git a/versions/z-/zstd.json b/versions/z-/zstd.json
index 42b93ffcb8..6ed59ec7f1 100644
--- a/versions/z-/zstd.json
+++ b/versions/z-/zstd.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "796171d4d359b6786b8e1380fb6da8e677a9087b",
+      "version": "1.5.6",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "259dc461801ecb946995e13fd3d94b1381d02441",
       "version": "1.5.5",