diff --git a/misc/jenkins/unit_tests/unit_tests.bat b/misc/jenkins/unit_tests/unit_tests.bat
index 8906c99c1b..7bbecabd17 100644
--- a/misc/jenkins/unit_tests/unit_tests.bat
+++ b/misc/jenkins/unit_tests/unit_tests.bat
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ echo We are in root folder
 pwd
 
 cd unit_tests
+rem Clean build is needed since some file renames would produce a broken incremental build
+make clean
 
 rem Only here we are building unit_tests
 call compile.bat