diff --git a/contrib/vcpkg/portfile.cmake b/contrib/vcpkg/portfile.cmake
index f5f39009..69661526 100644
--- a/contrib/vcpkg/portfile.cmake
+++ b/contrib/vcpkg/portfile.cmake
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ vcpkg_check_features(OUT_FEATURE_OPTIONS FEATURE_OPTIONS
     guarded     MI_GUARDED
     secure      MI_SECURE
     override    MI_OVERRIDE
+    optarch     MI_OPT_ARCH
+    optsimd     MI_OPT_SIMD
     xmalloc     MI_XMALLOC
     asm         MI_SEE_ASM
 )
@@ -26,16 +28,14 @@ string(COMPARE EQUAL "${VCPKG_LIBRARY_LINKAGE}" "dynamic" MI_BUILD_SHARED)
 
 vcpkg_cmake_configure(
   SOURCE_PATH "${SOURCE_PATH}"
-  OPTIONS_RELEASE
-    -DMI_OPT_ARCH=ON
   OPTIONS
     -DMI_USE_CXX=ON
     -DMI_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
     -DMI_BUILD_OBJECT=ON
-    ${FEATURE_OPTIONS}
     -DMI_BUILD_STATIC=${MI_BUILD_STATIC}
     -DMI_BUILD_SHARED=${MI_BUILD_SHARED}
     -DMI_INSTALL_TOPLEVEL=ON
+    ${FEATURE_OPTIONS}
 )
 
 vcpkg_cmake_install()
diff --git a/contrib/vcpkg/vcpkg.json b/contrib/vcpkg/vcpkg.json
index bdbe9ba1..45f8097b 100644
--- a/contrib/vcpkg/vcpkg.json
+++ b/contrib/vcpkg/vcpkg.json
@@ -26,9 +26,18 @@
     "secure": {
       "description": "Use full security mitigations (like guard pages and randomization)"
     },
+    "guarded": {
+      "description": "Use build that support guard pages after objects controlled with MIMALLOC_GUARDED_SAMPLE_RATE"
+    },
     "xmalloc": {
       "description": "If out-of-memory, call abort() instead of returning NULL"
     },
+    "optarch": {
+      "description": "Use architecture specific optimizations (on x64: '-march=haswell;-mavx2', on arm64: '-march=armv8.1-a')"
+    },
+    "optsimd": {
+      "description": "Allow use of SIMD instructions (avx2 or neon) (requires 'optarch' to be enabled)"
+    },
     "asm": {
       "description": "Generate assembly files"
     }