diff --git a/build/pause/Dockerfile_windows b/build/pause/Dockerfile_windows
index daa7558ec00..81b6ddd58b6 100644
--- a/build/pause/Dockerfile_windows
+++ b/build/pause/Dockerfile_windows
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ ARG BASE
 FROM ${BASE}
 ARG ARCH
 ADD bin/pause-windows-${ARCH}.exe /pause.exe
-ADD windows/wincat.exe /Windows/System32/wincat.exe
+ADD bin/wincat-windows-amd64 /Windows/System32/wincat.exe
 
 # NOTE(claudiub): docker buildx sets the PATH env variable to a Linux-like PATH,
 # which is not desirable. See: https://github.com/moby/buildkit/issues/1560
diff --git a/build/pause/Makefile b/build/pause/Makefile
index 4791ac91751..16abd317f97 100644
--- a/build/pause/Makefile
+++ b/build/pause/Makefile
@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ bin/${BIN.linux}-$(OS)-$(ARCH): $(SRCS)
 			$(TRIPLE)-gcc $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $^ && \
 			$(TRIPLE)-strip $(foreach binary, $@, ${binary}${EXTENSION})"
 
-bin/wincat-windows-${ARCH}:
-	CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=windows GOARCH=${ARCH} go build -o windows/wincat.exe windows/wincat/wincat.go
+bin/wincat-windows-${ARCH}: windows/wincat/wincat.go
+	CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=windows GOARCH=${ARCH} go build -o $@ $^
 
 container: .container-${OS}-$(ARCH)
 .container-linux-$(ARCH): bin/$(BIN)-$(OS)-$(ARCH)
diff --git a/build/pause/windows/wincat/wincat.go b/build/pause/windows/wincat/wincat.go
index 1bd57a3f067..2f671c45726 100644
--- a/build/pause/windows/wincat/wincat.go
+++ b/build/pause/windows/wincat/wincat.go
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 limitations under the License.
 */
 
-// package wincat connects to the given host and port and redirects its stdin to the connection and
+// package main connects to the given host and port and redirects its stdin to the connection and
 // the connection's output to stdout. This is currently being used for port-forwarding for Windows Pods.
-package wincat
+package main
 
 import (
 	"fmt"