diff --git a/Projects/BuildTool/Program.cs b/Projects/BuildTool/Program.cs
index dd2b16479..915839bbf 100644
--- a/Projects/BuildTool/Program.cs
+++ b/Projects/BuildTool/Program.cs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ using BuildTool.Interactive;
 using BuildTool.Platform;
 using BuildTool.Prerequisites;
 using BuildTool.Publishing;
+using Spectre.Console;
 
 Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
 
@@ -38,25 +39,18 @@ var rid = $"{options.Os}-{options.Arch}";
 
 if (options.CheckPrereqsOnly)
 {
-    var allPassed = true;
-
-    foreach (var result in NativeLibraryChecker.Check(detectedPlatform))
+    // Same renderer the guided menu uses, so the two cannot drift. Spectre drops ANSI styling by
+    // itself when stdout is not a terminal, which is the case this flag exists for, but it also
+    // falls back to an 80 column width and folds anything longer. The install hints we print are
+    // shell commands — the CentOS one is 95 characters — and a fold puts a newline in the middle of
+    // a command that someone is meant to copy. Widen the profile so they stay on one line.
+    if (Console.IsOutputRedirected)
     {
-        if (!result.IsWarning)
-        {
-            Console.WriteLine($"{result.Name,-16} {(result.Passed ? "OK" : "MISSING"),-8} {result.Details}");
-            allPassed &= result.Passed;
-            continue;
-        }
-
-        Console.WriteLine(result.Details);
-        if (result.InstallCommand is not null)
-        {
-            Console.WriteLine($"  {result.InstallCommand}");
-        }
+        AnsiConsole.Profile.Width = 200;
     }
 
-    return allPassed ? 0 : 1;
+    // Exit code is the machine-readable half: 0 when everything resolves, 1 when anything is missing.
+    return PrerequisiteChecker.CheckNativeLibraries(detectedPlatform, interactive: false) ? 0 : 1;
 }
 
 // Run prerequisite checks unless skipped