diff --git a/nntrainer/app_context.cpp b/nntrainer/app_context.cpp
index 43eaaa0b93..fbf560f761 100644
--- a/nntrainer/app_context.cpp
+++ b/nntrainer/app_context.cpp
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ void AppContext::setWorkingDirectory(const std::string &base) {
   }
   closedir(dir);
 
-  char *ret = realpath(base.c_str(), nullptr);
+  char *ret = getRealpath(base.c_str(), nullptr);
 
   if (ret == nullptr) {
     std::stringstream ss;
diff --git a/nntrainer/models/model_loader.cpp b/nntrainer/models/model_loader.cpp
index 3000c9f020..0a22303fb3 100644
--- a/nntrainer/models/model_loader.cpp
+++ b/nntrainer/models/model_loader.cpp
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ int ModelLoader::loadFromConfig(std::string config, NeuralNetwork &model) {
 
   model_file_context = std::make_unique<AppContext>();
 
-  auto config_realpath_char = realpath(config.c_str(), nullptr);
+  auto config_realpath_char = getRealpath(config.c_str(), nullptr);
   if (config_realpath_char == nullptr) {
     ml_loge("failed to resolve config path to absolute path, reason: %s",
             strerror(errno));
diff --git a/nntrainer/utils/util_func.cpp b/nntrainer/utils/util_func.cpp
index 1bd1469663..5cf04368d5 100644
--- a/nntrainer/utils/util_func.cpp
+++ b/nntrainer/utils/util_func.cpp
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
  *
  */
 
+#ifdef _WIN32
+#define MAX_PATH_LENGTH 1024
+#endif
+
 #include <cmath>
 #include <fstream>
 #include <random>
@@ -197,4 +201,12 @@ bool istrequal(const std::string &a, const std::string &b) {
   });
 }
 
+char *getRealpath(const char *__restrict name, char *__restrict resolved) {
+#ifdef _WIN32
+  return _fullpath(resolved, name, MAX_PATH_LENGTH);
+#else
+  return realpath(name, resolved);
+#endif
+}
+
 } // namespace nntrainer
diff --git a/nntrainer/utils/util_func.h b/nntrainer/utils/util_func.h
index 5147accb9d..f51e796bba 100644
--- a/nntrainer/utils/util_func.h
+++ b/nntrainer/utils/util_func.h
@@ -271,6 +271,16 @@ template <typename T, typename C = int> T enum_class_or(T e1, T e2) {
   return static_cast<T>(i1 | i2);
 }
 
+/**
+ * @brief Convert a relative path into an absolute path.
+ *
+ * @param name relative path
+ * @param resolved variable to store the result value.
+ *
+ * @return absolute path
+ */
+char *getRealpath(const char *__restrict name, char *__restrict resolved);
+
 } /* namespace nntrainer */
 
 #endif /* __cplusplus */