diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 2e1ae6d0..e023f379 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -261,7 +261,8 @@ exports.extract = function (cwd, opts) {
     var onlink = function () {
       if (win32) return next() // skip links on win for now before it can be tested
       xfs.unlink(name, function () {
-        var srcpath = path.resolve(cwd, header.linkname)
+        var srcpath = path.join(cwd, path.join('/', header.linkname))
+
 
         xfs.link(srcpath, name, function (err) {
           if (err && err.code === 'EPERM' && opts.hardlinkAsFilesFallback) {