diff --git a/build_tools/strip_nonapi b/build_tools/strip_nonapi
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..99d21f6667f9398db1d5630871ffe1e0ae7da1cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build_tools/strip_nonapi
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/bin/sh -e
+
+# This script is designed to remove all non-API global symbols from an object
+# file. The only global symbols that should be retained are those that belong
+# to the official namespace. Unfortunately doing this is platform-specific, as
+# the object file manipulation tools are not consistent across platforms.
+#
+# On platforms where this script does not know what to do, the object file
+# will retain non-API global symbols, and this may have unpleasant side effects.
+#
+# Prefixes that belong to the official namespace are:
+#	ast_
+#	_ast_
+#	__ast_
+#	astman_
+#	pbx_
+
+FILTER="grep -v -e ^ast_ -e ^_ast_ -e ^__ast_ -e ^astman_ -e ^pbx_"
+
+case "${OSARCH}" in
+    linux-gnu)
+	nm ${1} | grep -e " T " | cut -d" " -f3 | ${FILTER} > striplist
+	sed -e "s/^/-N /" striplist | xargs strip ${1}
+	rm -f striplist
+	;;
+    *)
+	;;
+esac
diff --git a/main/Makefile b/main/Makefile
index da2197f9b9d54b0f9e61cddf35e58490a0213d07..b615c3b6599b78914d40963a30f4e7d816c13814 100644
--- a/main/Makefile
+++ b/main/Makefile
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@ asterisk: $(OBJS) editline/libedit.a db1-ast/libdb1.a $(AST_EMBED_LDSCRIPTS)
 	@rm -f $(ASTTOPDIR)/include/asterisk/build.h.tmp
 	@$(CC) -c -o buildinfo.o $(CFLAGS) buildinfo.c
 	$(ECHO_PREFIX) echo "   [LD] $^ -> $@"
-	$(CMD_PREFIX) $(CXX) $(STATIC_BUILD) -o asterisk $(ASTLINK) $(AST_EMBED_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(H323LDFLAGS) $^ buildinfo.o $(AST_LIBS) $(AST_EMBED_LIBS) $(H323LDLIBS)
+	$(CMD_PREFIX) $(CXX) $(STATIC_BUILD) -o $@ $(ASTLINK) $(AST_EMBED_LDFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) $(H323LDFLAGS) $^ buildinfo.o $(AST_LIBS) $(AST_EMBED_LIBS) $(H323LDLIBS)
+	@$(ASTTOPDIR)/build_tools/strip_nonapi $@
 
 clean::
 	rm -f asterisk