diff --git a/.cargo/config.toml b/.cargo/config.toml
deleted file mode 100644
index e44bca7..0000000
--- a/.cargo/config.toml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-[build]
-# Without this flag, when linking static libruby, the linker removes symbols
-# (such as `_rb_ext_ractor_safe`) which it thinks are dead code... but they are
-# not, and they need to be included for the `embed` feature to work with static
-# Ruby.
-# rustflags = ["-C", "link-args=-lz", "-C", "link-dead-code=on"]
-rustflags = ["-C", "link-args=-lz"]
diff --git a/build.rs b/build.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..62f4b71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+fn main() {
+    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=z"); // TODO: if features Ruby
+}
diff --git a/src/runtimes/ruby.rs b/src/runtimes/ruby.rs
index 609c68b..8a74fc1 100644
--- a/src/runtimes/ruby.rs
+++ b/src/runtimes/ruby.rs
@@ -76,14 +76,6 @@ impl RubyThread {
                 let mut variable_in_this_stack_frame: VALUE = 0;
                 ruby_init_stack(&mut variable_in_this_stack_frame as *mut VALUE as *mut _);
                 rb_sys::ruby_init();
-                let opts = ["-e", ""];
-                let mut argv = vec![];
-                argv.extend(opts.iter().map(|s| CString::new(*s).unwrap()));
-                let mut argv = argv
-                    .iter()
-                    .map(|cs| cs.as_ptr() as *mut _)
-                    .collect::<Vec<_>>();
-                ruby_options(argv.len() as i32, argv.as_mut_ptr());
             };
             while let Ok(f) = receiver.recv() {
                 let ruby = Ruby::get().expect("Failed to get a handle to Ruby API");