diff --git a/azure-pipelines/windows-setup-mingw.yml b/azure-pipelines/windows-setup-mingw.yml
index b6c9e9be..d259a371 100644
--- a/azure-pipelines/windows-setup-mingw.yml
+++ b/azure-pipelines/windows-setup-mingw.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ steps:
     $chocopath = where.exe choco.exe | Get-Item
     # apparently they didn't think to add this functionality from the start (multiple joins was only added in PowerShell 6 and Azure Pipelines is using 5.x), and the direct-CLR approach actually behaves differently (and I would need to check which version of .net Azure Pipelines is using anyway, since our use case isn't one of those cases where it behaves differently)
     $chocopath = Join-Path -Path $chocopath.Directory -ChildPath "install" | Join-Path -ChildPath "${{ parameters.which }}" | Join-Path -ChildPath "bin"
-    echo "abcdef##vso[task.prependpath]$chocopath"
+    dir $chocopath | Write-Error
+    Write-Error "##vso[task.prependpath]$chocopath"
     exit 1
   displayName: 'Set Up MinGW-w64'