diff --git a/.spin/cmds.py b/.spin/cmds.py
index 7a80393d0..b5631b0e6 100644
--- a/.spin/cmds.py
+++ b/.spin/cmds.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import click
 from spin import util
 from spin.cmds import meson
+from spin.cmds.meson import build_dir_option
 
 
 def get_git_revision_hash(submodule) -> str:
@@ -145,14 +146,18 @@ def setup_submodule(forcesubmodule=False):
 @click.option(
     "--forcesubmodule", is_flag=True, help="Force submodule pull.", envvar="FORCE_SUBMODULE"
 )
+@build_dir_option
 @click.pass_context
 def build(
     ctx,
+    *,
     meson_args,
     jobs=None,
     clean=False,
     verbose=False,
     gcov=False,
+    quiet=False,
+    build_dir=None,
     forcesubmodule=False,
 ):
     """Build treeple using submodules.
diff --git a/build_requirements.txt b/build_requirements.txt
index 95bc6c98e..ec63cfb3b 100644
--- a/build_requirements.txt
+++ b/build_requirements.txt
@@ -8,5 +8,5 @@ click
 rich-click
 doit
 pydevtool
-spin
+spin>=0.12
 build
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 596d2408b..c0a50d95a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ build = [
   'twine',
   'meson',
   'meson-python',
-  'spin',
+  'spin>=0.12',
   'doit',
   'scikit-learn>=1.5.0',
   'Cython>=3.0.10',