diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..781e4e043
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+name: Build Distribution Files
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ fourdiff-pypi ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ fourdiff-pypi ]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      # Latest right now, based on ubuntu 24.04
+      #image: condaforge/miniforge3:26.1.1-3
+      image: ubuntu:24.04
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout repository
+        uses: actions/checkout@v6
+
+      - name: Install ubuntu packages
+        run: |
+          apt-get update && build-essential pkg-config python
+
+      # - name: install upterm requirements
+      #   run: apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends tmux openssh-client
+      # - name: upterm ssh debug
+      #   uses: owenthereal/action-upterm@v1
+
+      - name: Build the files
+        run: bundler/bundler.py --workdir work
+
+      - name: Upload build artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v6
+        with:
+          name: built-files
+          path: dist/
+          retention-days: 7
diff --git a/.github/workflows/debug-ssh.yml b/.github/workflows/debug-ssh.yml
index 73c37e710..a3710a699 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/debug-ssh.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/debug-ssh.yml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ on:
         description: 'Enable debug SSH?'
         required: false
         default: 'false'
-  pull_request:
+  #pull_request:
 
 jobs:
   build:
diff --git a/bundler/bundler.py b/bundler/bundler.py
index 84ed20266..307169278 100755
--- a/bundler/bundler.py
+++ b/bundler/bundler.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 import re
 import sys
 from pathlib import Path
-from shutil import copy, copytree
+from shutil import copy, copytree, which
 from subprocess import check_call
 from tempfile import mkdtemp, mkstemp
 
@@ -323,11 +323,18 @@ def main():
 
     parser = ArgumentParser(description="build and bundle")
     parser.add_argument("--workdir", type=Path, help="Path for work. If not given, will be chosen in /tmp")
-    parser.add_argument("conda", type=Path, help="path to conda executable")
+    parser.add_argument("--conda", type=Path, help="Path to conda executable. If not given, will be taken from PATH")
     args = parser.parse_args()
 
     workdir = args.workdir or Path(mkdtemp(prefix="meld-bundler-workdir-"))
-    build_all(args.conda, workdir)
+    if args.conda:
+        conda = args.conda
+    else:
+        conda0 = which('conda')
+        if conda0 is None:
+            raise RuntimeError("Couldn't find conda")
+        conda = Path(conda0)
+    build_all(conda, workdir)
 
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/bundler/dedup_solibs.py b/bundler/dedup_solibs.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c1e87e2d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bundler/dedup_solibs.py
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import re
+from pathlib import Path
+from subprocess import check_call
+from tempfile import mkstemp
+
+
+def get_solib_groups(env: Path) -> dict[str, list[str]]:
+    libdir = env / 'lib'
+    solib_groups: dict[str, list[str]] = {}
+    for fn in libdir.iterdir():
+        name = fn.name
+        if '.so' not in name:
+            continue
+        base = name[:name.index('.so') + 3]
+        if base == 'libgcc_s.so':
+            # This is special, libgcc_s.so and libgcc_s.so.1 are different
+            continue
+        solib_groups.setdefault(base, []).append(name)
+    for names in solib_groups.values():
+        # Sort fns so the first one is the shortest one, which should be copied
+        names.sort(key=lambda name: len(name))
+        fns = [libdir.joinpath(name) for name in names]
+        # In some cases there are equal files which are not symlinks. So just read all of them.
+        bs = [fn.read_bytes() for fn in fns]
+        for fn, b in zip(fns, bs):
+            if b != bs[0]:
+                raise RuntimeError(f"Expecting {fns[0]} and {fn} to have the same content")
+    return solib_groups
+
+
+def fix_solib_names_in_bytes(solib_groups: dict[str, list[str]], solib_re: re.Pattern[bytes], matches: list[re.Match[bytes]], b0: bytes, is_binary: bool) -> bytes:
+    if is_binary:
+        terminators = [0]
+    else:
+        terminators = [ord(','), ord('"')]
+    b = bytes()
+    last_pos = 0
+    ignore_matches_before = 0
+    for match in matches:
+        if match.start() < ignore_matches_before:
+            continue
+        short = match.group(0)
+        names = solib_groups[short.decode('ascii')]
+        for end_pos in range(match.start(), len(b0)):
+            if b0[end_pos] in terminators:
+                break
+        else:
+            # We accept the end of string as a terminator, for the recursive call.
+            end_pos = len(b0)
+        segment = b0[match.start():end_pos]
+        name = segment.decode('ascii')
+        if name not in names:
+            if name == 'libGLX.so.1':
+                # Probably refers to the OS
+                continue
+            if is_binary:
+                # We can have a string like "libharfbuzz-gobject.so.0,libharfbuzz.so.0" in a binary typelib file.
+                # So we call ourselves with is_binary=False, to try to replace it with a shorter string.
+                matches2 = list(solib_re.finditer(segment))
+                short = fix_solib_names_in_bytes(solib_groups, solib_re, matches2, segment, is_binary=False)
+                ignore_matches_before = end_pos
+            else:
+                raise RuntimeError(f"Found string {name} but it's not in {names}")
+
+        b += b0[last_pos:match.start()]
+        b += short
+        if is_binary:
+            b += b'\0' * (len(segment) - len(short))
+        # Note that the terminator will be copied on the next iteration
+        last_pos = end_pos
+    b += b0[last_pos:]
+    return b
+
+
+def fix_solib_names(strip: Path, solib_groups: dict[str, list[str]], solib_re: re.Pattern[bytes], fn: Path) -> bytes:
+    b0 = fn.read_bytes()
+    if b0[:4] == b'\x7fELF':
+        fd, path = mkstemp()
+        try:
+            os.close(fd)
+            check_call([strip, fn, '-o', path], text=False)
+            b0 = Path(path).read_bytes()
+        finally:
+            os.remove(path)
+    matches = list(solib_re.finditer(b0))
+    if not matches:
+        return b0
+    magic = b0[:4]
+    if magic in (b'\x7fELF', b'GOBJ'):
+        is_binary = True
+    elif magic == b'<?xm':
+        is_binary = False
+    else:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"File {fn} contains the name of a solib at position {matches[0].start()} but is not of a supported format")
+    return fix_solib_names_in_bytes(solib_groups, solib_re, matches, b0, is_binary)
+
+
+def get_solib_re(solib_groups: dict[str, list[str]]) -> re.Pattern[bytes]:
+    return re.compile(b'|'.join(re.escape(name.encode('ascii')) for name in solib_groups.keys()))
+
+
+def test_fix_solib_names():
+    solib_groups = {
+        'libharfbuzz-gobject.so': ['libharfbuzz-gobject.so', 'libharfbuzz-gobject.so.0'],
+        'libharfbuzz.so': ['libharfbuzz.so', 'libharfbuzz.so.0'],
+    }
+    solib_re = get_solib_re(solib_groups)
+    b0 = b"GOBJ\1\2\3libharfbuzz-gobject.so.0,libbla,libharfbuzz.so.0\0FOO"
+    fd, fn = mkstemp()
+    try:
+        os.write(fd, b0)
+        os.close(fd)
+        b1 = fix_solib_names(Path('/dev/null'), solib_groups, solib_re, Path(fn))
+    finally:
+        os.remove(fn)
+    assert b1 == b"GOBJ\1\2\3libharfbuzz-gobject.so,libbla,libharfbuzz.so\0\0\0\0\0FOO"