diff --git a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-gettext/default.nix b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-gettext/default.nix
index d8a874a7e2f..e1b66741215 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-gettext/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/ocaml-modules/ocaml-gettext/default.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   createFindlibDestdir = true;
 
+  dontStrip = true;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "OCaml Bindings to gettext";
     homepage = https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/ocaml-gettext;