diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index f2da713..ec5d268 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ checksum = "b03f7fbd470aa8b3ad163c85cce8bccfc11cc9c44ef12da0a4eddd98bd307352"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "spl"
-version = "0.1.2"
+version = "0.1.4"
 dependencies = [
  "multicall",
  "once_cell",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 42f5779..24ededc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "spl"
-version = "0.1.3"
+version = "0.1.4"
 edition = "2021"
 description = "Stack Pogramming Language: A simple, concise scripting language."
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/src/oxidizer/mod.rs b/src/oxidizer/mod.rs
index f02ab73..abc2d14 100644
--- a/src/oxidizer/mod.rs
+++ b/src/oxidizer/mod.rs
@@ -173,7 +173,28 @@ impl RustAppBuilder {
             .unwrap()
             .wait_with_output()?;
         Ok(RustApp {
-            binary: format!("{tmp}/spl-{name}/target/release/spl-{name}"),
+            binary: {
+                // insanity. will have to clean this up at some point.
+                let dir = format!("{tmp}/spl-{name}/target/release/");
+                fs::read_dir(dir)
+                    .expect("unable to build: dir was not created.")
+                    .filter(|x| {
+                        let x = x
+                            .as_ref()
+                            .expect("file system did something i cannot comprehend");
+                        let n = x.file_name().into_string().unwrap();
+                        x.file_type().expect("file system uhhh?????").is_file()
+                            && !n.ends_with(".d")
+                            && !n.starts_with(".")
+                    })
+                    .next()
+                    .expect("cargo was unable to build the binary")
+                    .expect("file system did something i cannot comprehend")
+                    .path()
+                    .into_os_string()
+                    .into_string()
+                    .expect("bad unicode in file path")
+            },
         })
     }
 }