diff --git a/docs/pages/release_notes.md b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
index 6f94c19430..55fab6f0c9 100644
--- a/docs/pages/release_notes.md
+++ b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ More information is available in [the user documentation](pmd_userdocs_cpd.html#
 ### Fixed Issues
 
 *   all
+    *   [#1462](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1462): \[core] Failed build on Windows with source zip archive
     *   [#1559](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/1559): \[core] CPD: Lexical error in file (no file name provided)
 *   java-bestpractices
     *   [#808](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/808): \[java] AccessorMethodGeneration false positives with compile time constants
diff --git a/pmd-core/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/renderers/YAHTMLRendererTest.java b/pmd-core/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/renderers/YAHTMLRendererTest.java
index 7e968a7c30..4667b538ee 100644
--- a/pmd-core/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/renderers/YAHTMLRendererTest.java
+++ b/pmd-core/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/renderers/YAHTMLRendererTest.java
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.junit.After;
@@ -104,13 +105,18 @@ public class YAHTMLRendererTest extends AbstractRendererTst {
             try (FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(new File(outputDir, file));
                     InputStream expectedIn = YAHTMLRendererTest.class.getResourceAsStream("yahtml/" + file)) {
                 String data = IOUtils.toString(in, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
-                String expected = IOUtils.toString(expectedIn, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
+                String expected = normalizeLineSeparators(IOUtils.toString(expectedIn, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
 
                 assertEquals("File " + file + " is different", expected, data);
             }
         }
     }
 
+    private static String normalizeLineSeparators(String s) {
+        return s.replaceAll(Pattern.quote(IOUtils.LINE_SEPARATOR_WINDOWS), IOUtils.LINE_SEPARATOR_UNIX)
+                .replaceAll(Pattern.quote(IOUtils.LINE_SEPARATOR_UNIX), PMD.EOL);
+    }
+
     @Override
     public Renderer getRenderer() {
         Renderer result = new YAHTMLRenderer();
diff --git a/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/MockedFileWriter.java b/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/MockedFileWriter.java
index a533e136f2..7ff3dd6a47 100644
--- a/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/MockedFileWriter.java
+++ b/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/MockedFileWriter.java
@@ -8,9 +8,13 @@ import java.io.IOException;
 import java.nio.file.Path;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 
+import net.sourceforge.pmd.PMD;
+
 public class MockedFileWriter implements FileWriter {
     
     public static class FileEntry {
@@ -43,4 +47,9 @@ public class MockedFileWriter implements FileWriter {
     public void reset() {
         data.clear();
     }
+
+    public static String normalizeLineSeparators(String s) {
+        return s.replaceAll(Pattern.quote(IOUtils.LINE_SEPARATOR_WINDOWS), IOUtils.LINE_SEPARATOR_UNIX)
+                .replaceAll(Pattern.quote(IOUtils.LINE_SEPARATOR_UNIX), PMD.EOL);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/RuleDocGeneratorTest.java b/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/RuleDocGeneratorTest.java
index 2028845677..65ee4ef4a7 100644
--- a/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/RuleDocGeneratorTest.java
+++ b/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/RuleDocGeneratorTest.java
@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ public class RuleDocGeneratorTest {
         });
     }
 
+    private static String loadResource(String name) throws IOException {
+        return MockedFileWriter.normalizeLineSeparators(
+                IOUtils.toString(RuleDocGeneratorTest.class.getResourceAsStream(name), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testSingleRuleset() throws RuleSetNotFoundException, IOException {
         RuleDocGenerator generator = new RuleDocGenerator(writer, root);
@@ -82,17 +87,14 @@ public class RuleDocGeneratorTest {
         assertEquals(3, writer.getData().size());
         FileEntry languageIndex = writer.getData().get(0);
         assertTrue(FilenameUtils.normalize(languageIndex.getFilename(), true).endsWith("docs/pages/pmd/rules/java.md"));
-        assertEquals(IOUtils.toString(RuleDocGeneratorTest.class.getResourceAsStream("/expected/java.md"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8),
-                languageIndex.getContent());
+        assertEquals(loadResource("/expected/java.md"), languageIndex.getContent());
 
         FileEntry ruleSetIndex = writer.getData().get(1);
         assertTrue(FilenameUtils.normalize(ruleSetIndex.getFilename(), true).endsWith("docs/pages/pmd/rules/java/sample.md"));
-        assertEquals(IOUtils.toString(RuleDocGeneratorTest.class.getResourceAsStream("/expected/sample.md"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8),
-                ruleSetIndex.getContent());
+        assertEquals(loadResource("/expected/sample.md"), ruleSetIndex.getContent());
 
         FileEntry sidebar = writer.getData().get(2);
         assertTrue(FilenameUtils.normalize(sidebar.getFilename(), true).endsWith("docs/_data/sidebars/pmd_sidebar.yml"));
-        assertEquals(IOUtils.toString(RuleDocGeneratorTest.class.getResourceAsStream("/expected/pmd_sidebar.yml"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8),
-                sidebar.getContent());
+        assertEquals(loadResource("/expected/pmd_sidebar.yml"), sidebar.getContent());
     }
 }
diff --git a/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/SidebarGeneratorTest.java b/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/SidebarGeneratorTest.java
index b3d96b4e19..474e8683f6 100644
--- a/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/SidebarGeneratorTest.java
+++ b/pmd-doc/src/test/java/net/sourceforge/pmd/docs/SidebarGeneratorTest.java
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ public class SidebarGeneratorTest {
         }
         String yaml = new Yaml(options).dump(result);
 
-        assertEquals(IOUtils.toString(SidebarGeneratorTest.class.getResourceAsStream("sidebar.yml"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8), yaml);
+        String expected = MockedFileWriter.normalizeLineSeparators(
+                IOUtils.toString(SidebarGeneratorTest.class.getResourceAsStream("sidebar.yml"), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+        assertEquals(expected, yaml);
     }
 }