diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 83995e7..e434e9d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
 .stack-work
-/dist
\ No newline at end of file
+/dist
+/bin
+/node
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
deleted file mode 100644
index 86e1cf6..0000000
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "node"]
-	path = node
-	url = https://github.com/nodejs/node.git
diff --git a/Setup.hs b/Setup.hs
index 8b58f2b..b3d6b8b 100644
--- a/Setup.hs
+++ b/Setup.hs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import System.Directory
 import System.FilePath ((</>))
 
 nodeRelPath :: FilePath
-nodeRelPath = "node/node"
+nodeRelPath = "bin/node"
 
 buildNode :: Verbosity -> IO ()
 buildNode verbosity =
diff --git a/build_node.sh b/build_node.sh
index 94e9b65..9753a84 100644
--- a/build_node.sh
+++ b/build_node.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+mkdir -p bin
+
 # adapted from https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/123408/11374
 function version { echo "${@//v}" | awk -F. '{ printf("%d%03d%03d%03d\n", $1,$2,$3,$4); }'; }
 
@@ -7,12 +9,14 @@ NODE_VERSION=`node --version`
 
 if [ $(version "$NODE_VERSION") -ge $(version "v6.2.1") ]; then
     echo "Using existing system node $NODE_VERSION"
-    cp `which node` node/node
+    cp `which node` bin/node
 else
     echo "Building nodejs from source"
     # node not available or too old. Build from source.
-    git submodule update --init --recursive
+    git clone --depth 1 -b v6.11.3 https://github.com/nodejs/node.git
     cd node
     ./configure --prefix=/tmp
     make -j4
+    cd ..
+    cp node/node bin/node
 fi
diff --git a/node b/node
deleted file mode 160000
index dbce2ec..0000000
--- a/node
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit dbce2ecab3614e128fe028751470f49a60f2e860
diff --git a/nodejs-exec.cabal b/nodejs-exec.cabal
index f01ffd3..f1f4915 100644
--- a/nodejs-exec.cabal
+++ b/nodejs-exec.cabal
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ copyright:           2016 Yair
 category:            Foreign
 build-type:          Custom
 cabal-version:       >=1.8
-data-files:          node/node
+data-files:          bin/node
 
 library
   hs-source-dirs:      src