diff --git a/scripts/Makefile b/scripts/Makefile
index 499aead303..7171cbc7bd 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile
+++ b/scripts/Makefile
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ dotnetlibs/Microsoft.Management.Infrastructure.Native.dll: $(MI_STUBS) buildtemp
 MPATH=/usr/lib/mono/4.5/Facades
 REFLECTION_METADATA=buildtemp/System.Reflection.Metadata.1.0.22/lib/dotnet/System.Reflection.Metadata.dll
 COLLECTIONS_IMMUTABLE=buildtemp/System.Collections.Immutable.1.1.37/lib/dotnet/System.Collections.Immutable.dll
+$(REFLECTION_METADATA): buildtemp
+$(COLLECTIONS_IMMUTABLE): buildtemp
 buildtemp/TypeCatalogGen.exe: $(ADMIN_GIT_ROOT)/monad/nttargets/assemblies/core/PSAssemblyLoadContext/TypeCatalogGen/TypeCatalogGen.cs $(REFLECTION_METADATA) $(COLLECTIONS_IMMUTABLE) buildtemp
 	$(MCS) -out:$@ -target:exe -pkg:dotnet $(addprefix -r:, $(REFLECTION_METADATA) $(COLLECTIONS_IMMUTABLE) $(MPATH)/System.Runtime.dll $(MPATH)/System.Reflection.Primitives.dll $(MPATH)/System.IO.dll) $<
 
@@ -114,9 +116,11 @@ $(LIBPS_BUILD)/Makefile: $(MONAD_NATIVE)/CMakeLists.txt
 	cd $(LIBPS_BUILD) && cmake $(MONAD_NATIVE)
 
 NATIVE_BINARIES=libps.so monad_native host_cmdline
-$(addprefix dotnetlibs/, $(NATIVE_BINARIES)): $(LIBPS_BUILD)/Makefile
+$(addprefix dotnetlibs/, $(NATIVE_BINARIES)): monad-native
+
+monad-native: $(LIBPS_BUILD)/Makefile
 	$(MAKE) -j -C $(LIBPS_BUILD)
-	cp $(addprefix $(LIBPS_BUILD)/, $(notdir $@)) dotnetlibs
+	cp $(addprefix $(LIBPS_BUILD)/, $(NATIVE_BINARIES)) dotnetlibs
 
 # C++ tests for monad-native - results in native-tests.xml
 # see https://github.com/google/googletest
@@ -149,7 +153,7 @@ buildtemp: nuget.exe
 APP_BASE=exec_env/app_base
 
 .PHONY: $(APP_BASE)
-$(APP_BASE): runps.sh $(POWERSHELL_RUN_TARGETS)
+$(APP_BASE): runps.sh $(RUN_TARGETS)
 	rm -rf $@
 	mkdir -p $(APP_BASE)/Modules
 	cp $(ADMIN_GIT_ROOT)/monad/miscfiles/display/*.ps1xml $(APP_BASE)