diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 104e67fde..da522c08f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -70,8 +70,9 @@ cmake_dependent_option(ENABLE_DDCUTIL "Enable ddcutil" ON "LINUX" OFF)
 cmake_dependent_option(ENABLE_DIRECTX_HEADERS "Enable DirectX headers for WSL" ON "LINUX" OFF)
 cmake_dependent_option(ENABLE_THREADS "Enable multithreading" ON "Threads_FOUND" OFF)
 cmake_dependent_option(ENABLE_PCI_MEMORY "Enable detecting GPU memory size with libpci" OFF "LINUX OR BSD" OFF)
-cmake_dependent_option(ENABLE_SYSTEM_YYJSON "Use system provided (instead of fastfetch embeded) yyjson library" OFF "LINUX OR APPLE OR BSD OR WIN32 OR ANDROID" OFF)
 
+option(ENABLE_SYSTEM_YYJSON "Use system provided (instead of fastfetch embeded) yyjson library" OFF)
+option(ENABLE_ASAN "Build fastfetch with ASAN (address sanitizer)" OFF)
 option(BUILD_TESTS "Build tests" OFF) # Also create test executables
 option(SET_TWEAK "Add tweak to project version" ON) # This is set to off by github actions for release builds
 
@@ -116,7 +117,8 @@ if(APPLE AND DEFINED ENV{HOMEBREW_PREFIX})
 endif()
 
 set(FASTFETCH_FLAGS_DEBUG "-fno-omit-frame-pointer")
-if(NOT WIN32 AND NOT APPLE)
+if(ENABLE_ASAN)
+    message(STATUS "Address sanitizer enabled (DEBUG only)")
     set(FASTFETCH_FLAGS_DEBUG "${FASTFETCH_FLAGS_DEBUG} -fsanitize=address")
 endif()
 set(CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG} ${FASTFETCH_FLAGS_DEBUG}")