diff --git a/tools/cmake/kconfig.cmake b/tools/cmake/kconfig.cmake
index 97702935e..bd1a30668 100644
--- a/tools/cmake/kconfig.cmake
+++ b/tools/cmake/kconfig.cmake
@@ -123,15 +123,19 @@ function(__kconfig_generate_config sdkconfig sdkconfig_defaults)
     string(REPLACE ";" " " kconfigs "${kconfigs}")
     string(REPLACE ";" " " kconfig_projbuilds "${kconfig_projbuilds}")
 
+    # Place the long environment arguments into an input file
+    # to work around command line length limits for execute_process
+    # on Windows & CMake < 3.11
+    configure_file(
+        "${idf_path}/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.env.in"
+        "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/confgen.env")
+
     set(confgen_basecommand
         ${python} ${idf_path}/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.py
         --kconfig ${root_kconfig}
         --config ${sdkconfig}
         ${defaults_arg}
-        --env "COMPONENT_KCONFIGS=${kconfigs}"
-        --env "COMPONENT_KCONFIGS_PROJBUILD=${kconfig_projbuilds}"
-        --env "IDF_CMAKE=y"
-        --env "IDF_TARGET=${idf_target}")
+        --env-file "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/confgen.env")
 
     idf_build_get_property(build_dir BUILD_DIR)
     set(config_dir ${build_dir}/config)
diff --git a/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.env.in b/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.env.in
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e639c4d3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.env.in
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+    "COMPONENT_KCONFIGS": "${kconfigs}",
+    "COMPONENT_KCONFIGS_PROJBUILD": "${kconfig_projbuilds}",
+    "IDF_CMAKE": "y",
+    "IDF_TARGET": "${idf_target}"
+}
diff --git a/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.py b/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.py
index bbd4e2804..d4e875290 100755
--- a/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.py
+++ b/tools/kconfig_new/confgen.py
@@ -198,6 +198,10 @@ def main():
     parser.add_argument('--env', action='append', default=[],
                         help='Environment to set when evaluating the config file', metavar='NAME=VAL')
 
+    parser.add_argument('--env-file', type=argparse.FileType('r'),
+                        help='Optional file to load environment variables from. Contents '
+                             'should be a JSON object where each key/value pair is a variable.')
+
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     for fmt, filename in args.output:
@@ -214,6 +218,10 @@ def main():
     for name, value in args.env:
         os.environ[name] = value
 
+    if args.env_file is not None:
+        env = json.load(args.env_file)
+        os.environ.update(env)
+
     config = kconfiglib.Kconfig(args.kconfig)
     config.disable_redun_warnings()
     config.disable_override_warnings()