diff --git a/Build/NullSoftInstaller.hs b/Build/NullSoftInstaller.hs
index 1bdee08808..4b32c4698d 100644
--- a/Build/NullSoftInstaller.hs
+++ b/Build/NullSoftInstaller.hs
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@
  - The user needs to install git separately, and the installer checks
  - for that.
  - 
- - To build the installer, git-annex should already be built using
- - stack and the necessary utility programs (rsync and wget) already
- - installed in PATH from msys32.
+ - To build the installer, git-annex should already be built to
+ - ./git-annex.exe and the necessary utility programs (rsync and wget)
+ - already installed in PATH from msys32.
  -
  - Copyright 2013-2015 Joey Hess <id@joeyh.name>
  -
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ import Build.BundledPrograms
 main = do
 	withTmpDir "nsis-build" $ \tmpdir -> do
 		let gitannex = tmpdir </> gitannexprogram
-		mustSucceed "stack" [Param "--local-bin-path", File ".", Param "install"]
 		mustSucceed "ln" [File "git-annex.exe", File gitannex]
 		let license = tmpdir </> licensefile
 		mustSucceed "sh" [Param "-c", Param $ "zcat standalone/licences.gz > '" ++ license ++ "'"]
diff --git a/standalone/windows/build.sh b/standalone/windows/build.sh
index f9c53a7b21..895b745259 100755
--- a/standalone/windows/build.sh
+++ b/standalone/windows/build.sh
@@ -58,7 +58,8 @@ getextra rsync.exe 85cb7a4d16d274fcf8069b39042965ad26abd6aa
 
 # Build git-annex
 stack setup --stack-yaml stack-windows.yaml
-stack build -j 1 --stack-yaml stack-windows.yaml --no-haddock
+stack install -j 1 --stack-yaml stack-windows.yaml --no-haddock \
+	--local-bin-path .
 
 # Build the installer
 withcygpreferred stack ghc --stack-yaml stack-windows.yaml --no-haddock \