diff --git a/makepanda/makepanda.py b/makepanda/makepanda.py
index 919ad5b1a9..2f311bb7d2 100755
--- a/makepanda/makepanda.py
+++ b/makepanda/makepanda.py
@@ -3829,7 +3829,8 @@ if (RTDIST or RUNTIME):
   TargetAdd('plugin_handleStream.obj', opts=OPTS, input='handleStream.cxx')
   TargetAdd('plugin_handleStreamBuf.obj', opts=OPTS, input='handleStreamBuf.cxx')
   if (RTDIST):
-    for fname in ["p3d_plugin.dll", "libp3d_plugin_static.ilb"]:
+    TargetAdd("libp3d_plugin_static.lib", input='plugin_get_twirl_data.obj')
+    for fname in ("libp3d_plugin_static.ilb", "p3d_plugin.dll"):
       TargetAdd(fname, input='plugin_plugin.obj')
       TargetAdd(fname, input='plugin_mkdir_complete.obj')
       TargetAdd(fname, input='plugin_wstring_encode.obj')
@@ -3845,7 +3846,6 @@ if (RTDIST or RUNTIME):
       if (sys.platform == "darwin"):
         TargetAdd(fname, input='libsubprocbuffer.ilb')
       TargetAdd(fname, opts=['OPENSSL', 'ZLIB', 'JPEG', 'PNG', 'X11', 'ADVAPI', 'WINUSER', 'WINGDI', 'WINSHELL', 'WINCOMCTL', 'WINOLE', 'MSIMG'])
-    TargetAdd("libp3d_plugin_static.lib", input='plugin_get_twirl_data.obj')
 
   if (PkgSkip("PYTHON")==0 and RTDIST):
     TargetAdd('p3dpython_p3dpython_composite1.obj', opts=OPTS, input='p3dpython_composite1.cxx')