diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/deps.rs b/src/tools/tidy/src/deps.rs
index d4cbc37f6d2b3..59e0042e5c9b2 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/src/deps.rs
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/deps.rs
@@ -438,6 +438,7 @@ const PERMITTED_RUSTC_DEPENDENCIES: &[&str] = &[
     "windows-implement",
     "windows-interface",
     "windows-result",
+    "windows-strings",
     "windows-sys",
     "windows-targets",
     "windows_aarch64_gnullvm",