diff --git a/gears/gears.cabal b/gears/gears.cabal
index 9ebdcd99..d86f4c10 100644
--- a/gears/gears.cabal
+++ b/gears/gears.cabal
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ executable gears
     , essence-of-live-coding-pulse
   hs-source-dirs:      app
   default-language:    Haskell2010
-  ghc-options: -O2 -threaded -rtsopts -dynamic
+  ghc-options: -O2 -threaded -rtsopts
   default-extensions: Strict
   -- executable-profiling: true
   -- ghc-options: -O3 +RTS --RTS -N3