diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index b9ea3e5..ec868aa 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: learner
 Type: Package
 Title: Latent Space-Based Transfer Learning
-Version: 1.0.0
+Version: 1.0.1
 Authors@R: c(person("Sean", "McGrath", role = c("aut", "cre"), 
                      email = "sean.mcgrath514@gmail.com",
                      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7281-3516")),
diff --git a/src/Makevars b/src/Makevars
index a90b0d4..7187299 100644
--- a/src/Makevars
+++ b/src/Makevars
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 PKG_CXXFLAGS = $(SHLIB_CXXFLAGS) $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS)
 PKG_LIBS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS)
 
+# Strip debug symbols to reduce package size
+SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS = -Wl,-S -shared
+SHLIB_CXX11LDFLAGS = -Wl,-S -shared
+SHLIB_CXX14LDFLAGS = -Wl,-S -shared
+SHLIB_CXX17LDFLAGS = -Wl,-S -shared
+SHLIB_LDFLAGS = -Wl,-S -shared
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diff --git a/src/Makevars.win b/src/Makevars.win
index a90b0d4..321d593 100644
--- a/src/Makevars.win
+++ b/src/Makevars.win
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
 PKG_CXXFLAGS = $(SHLIB_CXXFLAGS) $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS)
 PKG_LIBS = $(SHLIB_OPENMP_CXXFLAGS)
 
+# Strip debug symbols on Windows
+SHLIB_CXXLDFLAGS = -s -shared
+SHLIB_CXX11LDFLAGS = -s -shared
+SHLIB_CXX14LDFLAGS = -s -shared
+SHLIB_CXX17LDFLAGS = -s -shared
+SHLIB_LDFLAGS = -s -shared
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