diff --git a/assets/windows.mk b/assets/windows.mk
index 8165b69..9f71ca3 100644
--- a/assets/windows.mk
+++ b/assets/windows.mk
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-# windows.mk - build windows docker image and do build phase
+# windows.mk - this one is quite a bit different from the others,
+# but we can fix that later.
 
-.PHONY : docker build
+.PHONY : docker build do-build
 
 version:=$(shell cat version)
 release:=$(shell cat release)
@@ -18,6 +19,9 @@ docker :
 	docker build -t $(image) - < assets/windows.Dockerfile
 
 build :
+	${MAKE} -C /root/windows/linux do-build
+
+do-build :
 	pwd
 	(cd /root/windows && git pull)
 	make fetch