diff --git a/Changes.md b/Changes.md
index 765e56fd..64b5fc29 100644
--- a/Changes.md
+++ b/Changes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 libhxcpp 6.0.0 (unreleased)
 ------------------------------------------------------------
 
+* Added HXCPP_PROGRESS_PERCENT, which shows a group's compile progress as a percentage of its files, [42.5% ], instead of a count, [425/1000]
 * Fixed a program on Linux with glibc staying as large as its largest burst of large allocations, such as the files a game reads while it loads: glibc keeps a freed buffer's memory in its heap unless it had mapped the buffer on its own, and once a buffer mapped on its own has been freed it stops mapping those of that size or less, up to 32 MB. The memory of the large buffers a collection freed then stayed the process's. The collector now trims the C heap once 16 MB has been freed to it, on the thread that frees the buffers. A program that dropped 384 MB of 4 MB buffers stayed at 396 MB resident and now returns to 12 MB
 * Fixed a native extension that includes hx/CFFI.h before hx/CFFIPrime.h, as SteamWrap does, failing to compile with hxs_encoding, hxs_utf16 and alloc_hxs_utf8 not declared: CFFI.h included first declares the CFFI API without HXCPP_PRIME, so without the Prime string functions that the ordinary wrapper of a DEFINE_PRIME function now uses. CFFIPrime.h declares them then
 * Made the collector's thread context on Linux a __thread pointer, read with one load from the thread pointer, instead of a call to pthread_getspecific each time an allocation leaves the inline path or a String or number is boxed. It was 3 to 4% of an OpenFL game's main thread. HXCPP_PTHREAD_FAST_TLS keeps pthread_getspecific (libhxcpp #429)
diff --git a/docs/build_xml/Defines.md b/docs/build_xml/Defines.md
index 67fbe6f2..d31903c2 100755
--- a/docs/build_xml/Defines.md
+++ b/docs/build_xml/Defines.md
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ Other defines:
 | *HXCPP_QUIET*           | Print less output from the build tool |
 | *HXCPP_SILENT*          | Print only errors from the build tool |
 | *HXCPP_COMPILE_THREADS* | Number of files to compile at once (also read from the environment) |
+| *HXCPP_PROGRESS_PERCENT* | Show a group's progress as a percentage of its files, instead of a count |
 | *HXCPP_COMPILE_CACHE*   | Directory for the compile cache, usually set in the environment. See [CompileCache.md](../CompileCache.md) |
 | *HXCPP_TIMES*           | Show some basic profiling information |
 | *HXCPP_NEKO_BUILDTOOL*  | Force use of hxcpp.n, rather than compiled BuildTool.exe
diff --git a/tools/hxcpp/BuildTool.hx b/tools/hxcpp/BuildTool.hx
index 3bda4d3d..7fa8dc4d 100644
--- a/tools/hxcpp/BuildTool.hx
+++ b/tools/hxcpp/BuildTool.hx
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ class BuildTool
          } : null;
 
          Profile.push("compile");
-         var progress = new Progress(to_be_compiled.length);
+         var progress = new Progress(to_be_compiled.length, mDefines.exists("HXCPP_PROGRESS_PERCENT"));
          if (threadPool==null)
          {
             for(file in to_be_compiled)
diff --git a/tools/hxcpp/Progress.hx b/tools/hxcpp/Progress.hx
index 0bbc560d..335c2a87 100644
--- a/tools/hxcpp/Progress.hx
+++ b/tools/hxcpp/Progress.hx
@@ -1,17 +1,29 @@
-// How many of a group's files have compiled, shown before each file as it starts
+// How many of a group's files have compiled, shown before each file as it
+//  starts: a count, or with HXCPP_PROGRESS_PERCENT a percentage
 class Progress
 {
    var finished:Int;
    var total:Int;
+   var percent:Bool;
 
-   public function new(inTotal:Int)
+   public function new(inTotal:Int, inPercent = false)
    {
       finished = 0;
       total = inTotal;
+      percent = inPercent;
    }
 
    public function label():String
    {
+      if (percent)
+      {
+         // Pad to the width of 100.0% so the file names line up
+         var tenths = total > 0 ? Std.int(finished * 1000 / total) : 1000;
+         var done = Std.int(tenths / 10) + "." + (tenths % 10) + "%";
+         while (done.length < 6)
+            done = done + " ";
+         return "\x1b[1m[" + done + "]\x1b[0m";
+      }
       var done = Std.string(finished);
       while (done.length < Std.string(total).length)
          done = " " + done;