diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4736473..0b159c2 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ name = "make_bitmap"
 path = "src/devel/make_bitmap.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-link-cplusplus = { version = "1.0", features = ["libstdc++"] }
 geos = { version = "9" }
 lazy_static = "1.4"
 numpy = { version = "0.21" }
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index c229b6d..fbbfc8e 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ extern crate lazy_static;
 
 // geos-sys needs libc++, probably libstdc++. On Windows Conda builds this hopefully adds the
 // correct flags to the linker.
-extern crate link_cplusplus;
+// extern crate link_cplusplus;
 
 use numpy::{PyArray, PyReadonlyArrayDyn};
 use pyo3::prelude::*;