diff --git a/src/tools/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/BUILD b/src/tools/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/BUILD
index 8af73b8c3..373a1cb16 100644
--- a/src/tools/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/BUILD
+++ b/src/tools/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/BUILD
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ java_binary(
     # recent example, 400 MB of memory was enough for about 500,000 entries.
     jvm_flags = [
         "-Xmx1600m",
-        "-Drunfiles.path=$$0.runfiles",
         "-Dsinglejar.path=$(rlocationpath //tools/jdk:singlejar)",
     ],
     main_class = "com.google.devtools.build.android.ZipFilterAction",
@@ -102,6 +101,7 @@ java_library(
         "@rules_android_maven//:com_google_code_findbugs_jsr305",
         "@rules_android_maven//:com_google_errorprone_error_prone_annotations",
         "@rules_android_maven//:com_google_guava_guava",
+        "@rules_java//java/runfiles",
         ":android_common_30_1_3",
         ":android_databinding_wrapper_lib",
         ":android_options_utils",
diff --git a/src/tools/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/ZipFilterAction.java b/src/tools/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/ZipFilterAction.java
index 458a1e48a..6d7c5185c 100644
--- a/src/tools/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/ZipFilterAction.java
+++ b/src/tools/java/com/google/devtools/build/android/ZipFilterAction.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSetMultimap;
 import com.google.common.collect.Multimap;
+import com.google.devtools.build.runfiles.Runfiles;
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
 import java.io.BufferedWriter;
 import java.io.File;
@@ -305,15 +306,13 @@ static int run(String[] args) throws IOException {
       throw new IllegalArgumentException("FORCE_DEFLATE is not supported.");
     }
 
-    String singleJarPath =
-        Path.of(System.getProperty("runfiles.path"), System.getProperty("singlejar.path"))
-            .toString();
+    String singleJarPath = resolveSingleJarPath();
     ImmutableList.Builder<String> singleJarArgsBuilder = ImmutableList.builder();
     singleJarArgsBuilder
         .add("--sources")
-        .add(options.inputZip.toString())
+        .add(singleJarParamPath(options.inputZip))
         .add("--output")
-        .add(options.outputZip.toString())
+        .add(singleJarParamPath(options.outputZip))
         .add(compressionStrategy)
         .add("--exclude_build_data")
         .add("--normalize");
@@ -367,4 +366,28 @@ static int run(String[] args) throws IOException {
 
     return sawErrors;
   }
+
+  private static String resolveSingleJarPath() throws IOException {
+    String singleJarPath = System.getProperty("singlejar.path");
+    if (singleJarPath == null || singleJarPath.isEmpty()) {
+      throw new IOException("Missing singlejar.path system property.");
+    }
+
+    Path directPath = Path.of(singleJarPath);
+    if (directPath.isAbsolute() && Files.exists(directPath)) {
+      return directPath.toString();
+    }
+
+    String resolvedPath = Runfiles.create().rlocation(singleJarPath);
+    if (resolvedPath != null) {
+      return resolvedPath;
+    }
+
+    throw new IOException("Could not resolve singlejar runfile: " + singleJarPath);
+  }
+
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  static String singleJarParamPath(Path path) {
+    return path.toString().replace('\\', '/');
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/tools/javatests/com/google/devtools/build/android/BUILD b/src/tools/javatests/com/google/devtools/build/android/BUILD
index eb0bfddf2..0fc5df0e6 100644
--- a/src/tools/javatests/com/google/devtools/build/android/BUILD
+++ b/src/tools/javatests/com/google/devtools/build/android/BUILD
@@ -369,7 +369,6 @@ java_test(
         "//tools/jdk:singlejar",
     ],
     jvm_flags = [
-        "-Drunfiles.path=$$TEST_SRCDIR",
         "-Dsinglejar.path=$(rlocationpath //tools/jdk:singlejar)",
     ],
     deps = [
diff --git a/src/tools/javatests/com/google/devtools/build/android/ZipFilterActionTest.java b/src/tools/javatests/com/google/devtools/build/android/ZipFilterActionTest.java
index 7ad0abaa1..db8f22375 100644
--- a/src/tools/javatests/com/google/devtools/build/android/ZipFilterActionTest.java
+++ b/src/tools/javatests/com/google/devtools/build/android/ZipFilterActionTest.java
@@ -161,6 +161,18 @@ private List<String> outputEntriesWithArgs(ImmutableList<String> args, File outp
     ZipFilterAction.run(args.toArray(new String[0]));
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void singleJarParamPath_normalizesWindowsSeparators() {
+    assertThat(
+            ZipFilterAction.singleJarParamPath(
+                Path.of(
+                    "bazel-out\\x64_windows-fastbuild\\bin\\tests\\emulator_instrumentation\\"
+                        + "instrumentation_app_deploy.jar")))
+        .isEqualTo(
+            "bazel-out/x64_windows-fastbuild/bin/tests/emulator_instrumentation/"
+                + "instrumentation_app_deploy.jar");
+  }
+
   @Test public void testFullIntegration() throws IOException {
     Path input = createZip(new Entry("foo.java", "foo"), new Entry("bar.class", "bar"),
         new Entry("baz.class", "baz"), new Entry("1.class", "1"), new Entry("2.class", "2"),