diff --git a/bin/build-dist b/bin/build-dist
index ae4c12d6e..4d73313a6 100755
--- a/bin/build-dist
+++ b/bin/build-dist
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ if [ "$BUILD" = "windows" ]; then
 else
     # without the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, it seems that pyinstaller can't find all of
     # wxpython's shared libraries
-    LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${site_packages}/wx" pyinstaller $pyinstaller_args inkstitch.py;
+    LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${site_packages}/wx" pyinstaller $pyinstaller_args --strip inkstitch.py;
 fi
 
 # pyinstaller put a whole mess of libraries under dist/inkstitch.  We'd like