diff --git a/build-win32 b/build-win32
index c24bb84..ced77ae 100755
--- a/build-win32
+++ b/build-win32
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ rm -f "${INSTALLDIR}.zip"
 mkdir "${INSTALLDIR}"
 mkdir "${BUILDDIR}"
 
+make distclean || true
+
 cd "${BUILDDIR}"
 # Build for win32
 "${SRCDIR}/configure" --host=i586-mingw32msvc --prefix=/ --bindir=/bin --libdir=/lib --disable-imlib2 --disable-doc