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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index d9a245f73..a04ad80c4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -47,7 +47,9 @@ or
python setup.py install --qmake=</path/to/qt/bin/qmake> [--cmake=</path/to/cmake>] [--openssl=</path/to/openssl/bin>]
to build and install into your current Python installation.
-On Linux you can use option --standalone, to embed Qt libraries to PySide2 distribution
+On Linux and macOS you can use option --standalone, to embed Qt libraries into the PySide2 package.
+The option does not affect Windows, because it is used implicitly, i.e. all relevant DLLs have to
+be copied into the PySide2 package anyway, because there is no proper rpath support on the platform.
You can use option --rpath="your_value" to specify what rpath values should be embedded into the
PySide2 modules and shared libraries. This overrides the automatically generated values when the