diff --git a/tint.gni b/tint.gni
index 44731b6..9b52393 100644
--- a/tint.gni
+++ b/tint.gni
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 tint_googletest_dir = "//third_party/googletest/src"
 tint_spirv_headers_dir = "//third_party/vulkan-deps/spirv-headers/src"
 
-tint_build_spv_reader = true
+tint_build_spv_reader = false
 tint_build_spv_writer = true
 tint_build_wgsl_reader = true
 tint_build_wgsl_writer = true