diff --git a/tools/jsmin.py b/tools/jsmin.py
deleted file mode 120000
index 76e4845a60..0000000000
--- a/tools/jsmin.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../deps/v8/tools/jsmin.py
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tools/jsmin.py b/tools/jsmin.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d03f1dcab5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/jsmin.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+import sys
+sys.path.append("../deps/v8/tools")
+import jsmin