diff --git a/.github/workflows/build-windows.yml b/.github/workflows/build-windows.yml
index 5d8df3f9..d73d680f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build-windows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build-windows.yml
@@ -61,32 +61,33 @@ jobs:
           rustc --version
           cargo --version
 
-      # ---- External prebuilt deps (mirror Android + iOS workflows) ----------
+      # ---- External path-dep plugins ----------------------------------------
       # Several plugins are path-deps in pubspec.yaml. The path directories
       # must exist BEFORE `flutter pub get` runs against the regenerated
       # pubspec, or pub fails with "could not find package X at <path>".
-      # We fetch the same prebuilt tarballs the other platforms use.
+      #
+      # The Android + iOS + Linux workflows use upstream-published .tar.gz
+      # tarballs. We don't, because those tarballs contain example/*
+      # symlinks pointing to absolute /home/runner/.pub-cache/ paths
+      # (artifacts from the upstream build host) — Linux tar tolerates
+      # dangling symlinks, Windows tar bails the whole extraction. Clone
+      # the source repos at the matching tagged versions instead. Same
+      # pattern as bitbox_flutter further down.
 
-      - name: Fetch prebuilt torch_dart
+      - name: Clone torch_dart at v1.0.17
         run: |
           set -x -e
           pushd scripts
-            rm -rf torch_dart torch_dart.tar.gz
-            curl -fsSL -o torch_dart.tar.gz https://github.com/MrCyjaneK/torch_dart/releases/download/v1.0.17/torch_dart-v1.0.17.tar.gz
-            mkdir torch_dart
-            tar -xzf torch_dart.tar.gz -C torch_dart
-            rm torch_dart.tar.gz
+            rm -rf torch_dart
+            git clone --depth 1 --branch v1.0.17 https://github.com/MrCyjaneK/torch_dart
           popd
 
-      - name: Fetch prebuilt reown_flutter
+      - name: Clone reown_flutter at v0.0.4
         run: |
           set -x -e
           pushd scripts
-            rm -rf reown_flutter reown_flutter.tar.gz
-            curl -fsSL -o reown_flutter.tar.gz https://github.com/cake-tech/reown_flutter/releases/download/v0.0.4/reown_flutter-v0.0.4.tar.gz
-            mkdir reown_flutter
-            tar -xzf reown_flutter.tar.gz -C reown_flutter
-            rm reown_flutter.tar.gz
+            rm -rf reown_flutter
+            git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.0.4 https://github.com/cake-tech/reown_flutter
           popd
 
       - name: Clone BitBox Flutter