diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f3c05980..c670f970 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -462,7 +462,6 @@ else (${SETUP_MODE})
   )
 
   add_custom_target(packaged_filesystem
-    COMMAND ruby ${EXE}/tebako-packager strip ${OSTYPE_TXT} ${DATA_SRC_DIR}
     COMMAND ${GNU_BASH} -c "chmod +x ${DEPS_BIN_DIR}/mkdwarfs${EXE_SUFFIX}"
     # No progress below is critical since in reporting mode mkdwarfs tries to work directly with terminal
     # and it creates issues for stderr redirects (&2 > 1) used by Ninja and our test srcipts
@@ -487,22 +486,18 @@ else (${SETUP_MODE})
   add_dependencies(tebako-fs packaged_filesystem)
 
   if (${RUBY_VER} VERSION_LESS "3.0.0")
-    add_custom_target(patched_ruby
+    add_custom_target(tebako
       COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E chdir ${RUBY_SOURCE_DIR} make ${RUBY_MAKEFILE} -j${NCORES}
-    )
+      COMMAND ruby ${EXE}/tebako-packager finalize ${OSTYPE_TXT} ${RUBY_SOURCE_DIR} ${APP_NAME}
+      )
   else()
-    add_custom_target(patched_ruby
+    add_custom_target(tebako
       COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E chdir ${RUBY_SOURCE_DIR} make ruby ${RUBY_MAKEFILE} -j${NCORES}
       COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E chdir ${RUBY_SOURCE_DIR} make ${RUBY_MAKEFILE} -j${NCORES}
-    )
+      COMMAND ruby ${EXE}/tebako-packager finalize ${OSTYPE_TXT} ${RUBY_SOURCE_DIR} ${APP_NAME}
+      )
   endif()
 
-  add_dependencies(patched_ruby setup tebako-fs)
-
-  add_custom_target(tebako ALL
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${RUBY_SOURCE_DIR}/ruby${RUBY_SUFFIX}${EXE_SUFFIX} ${APP_NAME}${EXE_SUFFIX}
-    COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo "Tebako packaging has completed"
-    DEPENDS patched_ruby
-  )
+  add_dependencies(tebako setup tebako-fs)
 
 endif(${SETUP_MODE})
diff --git a/exe/tebako-packager b/exe/tebako-packager
index 20844ddf..1be0723a 100755
--- a/exe/tebako-packager
+++ b/exe/tebako-packager
@@ -48,26 +48,7 @@ begin
     end
 
     Tebako::Packager.pass1(ARGV[1], ARGV[2], ARGV[3], ARGV[4], ARGV[5])
-  when "stash"
-    #       ARGV[0] -- command
-    #       ARGV[1] -- DATA_SRC_DIR
-    #       ARGV[2] -- RUBY_STASH_DIR
-    unless ARGV.length == 3
-      raise Tebako::Error,
-            "tebako-packager stash command expects 3 arguments, #{ARGV.length} has been provided."
-    end
-
-    Tebako::Packager.stash(ARGV[1], ARGV[2])
-  when "strip"
-    #       ARGV[0] -- command
-    #       ARGV[1] -- OSTYPE
-    #       ARGV[2] -- DATA_SRC_DIR
-    unless ARGV.length == 3
-      raise Tebako::Error,
-            "tebako-packager strip command expects 3 arguments, #{ARGV.length} has been provided."
-    end
 
-    Tebako::Stripper.strip(ARGV[1], ARGV[2])
   when "pass1a"
     #       ARGV[0] -- command
     #       ARGV[1] -- RUBY_SOURCE_DIR
@@ -114,6 +95,16 @@ begin
     # That shall match CMakeLists.txt settings
     Tebako::Packager.deploy(ARGV[1], ARGV[4], ARGV[5], ARGV[11], ARGV[7], ARGV[8], ARGV[9])
 
+  when "finalize"
+    #       ARGV[0] -- command
+    #       ARGV[1] -- OSTYPE
+    #       ARGV[2] -- RUBY_SOURCE_DIR
+    #       ARGV[3] -- APP_NAME
+    unless ARGV.length == 4
+      raise Tebako::Error,
+            "tebako-packager finalize command expects 4 arguments, #{ARGV.length} has been provided."
+    end
+    Tebako::Packager.finalize(ARGV[1], ARGV[2], ARGV[3])
   else
     raise Tebako::Error, "tebako-packager cannot process #{ARGV[0]} command"
   end
@@ -121,5 +112,4 @@ rescue Tebako::Error => e
   puts "tebako-packager failed: #{e.message} [#{e.error_code}]"
   exit(e.error_code)
 end
-
 exit(0)
diff --git a/lib/tebako/deploy_helper.rb b/lib/tebako/deploy_helper.rb
index ad17e0ba..dbe4d18c 100644
--- a/lib/tebako/deploy_helper.rb
+++ b/lib/tebako/deploy_helper.rb
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
 require "find"
 
 require_relative "error"
+require_relative "packager/patch_helpers"
 
 # Tebako - an executable packager
 module Tebako
@@ -65,11 +66,16 @@ def config(os_type, ruby_ver)
     end
 
     def deploy
-      system("#{gem_command} env")
-      install_gem("tebako-runtime")
-      install_gem("bundler", Tebako::BUNDLER_VERSION) if needs_bundler?
-
-      deploy_solution
+      Packager::PatchHelpers.with_env(deploy_env) do
+        unless Packager::PatchHelpers.ruby31?(@ruby_ver)
+          update_rubygems
+          patch_after_rubygems_update(@target_dir, @ruby_api_version)
+        end
+        system("#{gem_command} env")
+        install_gem("tebako-runtime")
+        install_gem("bundler", BUNDLER_VERSION) if needs_bundler?
+        deploy_solution
+      end
     end
 
     def deploy_env
@@ -264,6 +270,13 @@ def ncores
                   end
     end
 
+    def patch_after_rubygems_update(target_dir, ruby_api_ver)
+      # Autoload cannot handle statically linked openssl extension
+      # Changing it to require seems to be the simplest solution
+      Packager::PatchHelpers.patch_file("#{target_dir}/lib/ruby/site_ruby/#{ruby_api_ver}/rubygems/openssl.rb",
+                                        { "autoload :OpenSSL, \"openssl\"" => "require \"openssl\"" })
+    end
+
     def run_with_capture(args)
       puts "   ... @ #{args.join(" ")}"
       out, st = Open3.capture2e(*args)
diff --git a/lib/tebako/packager.rb b/lib/tebako/packager.rb
index dbbc5052..f47d25c9 100644
--- a/lib/tebako/packager.rb
+++ b/lib/tebako/packager.rb
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 
 require_relative "error"
 require_relative "deploy_helper"
+require_relative "stripper"
 require_relative "packager/pass1"
 require_relative "packager/pass1a"
 require_relative "packager/pass2"
@@ -79,14 +80,17 @@ def deploy(os_type, target_dir, pre_dir, ruby_ver, fs_root, fs_entrance, fs_moun
 
         deploy_helper = Tebako::DeployHelper.new(fs_root, fs_entrance, fs_mount_point, target_dir, pre_dir)
         deploy_helper.config(os_type, ruby_ver)
+        deploy_helper.deploy
+        Tebako::Stripper.strip(os_type, target_dir)
+      end
 
-        PatchHelpers.with_env(deploy_helper.deploy_env) do
-          unless PatchHelpers.ruby31?(ruby_ver)
-            deploy_helper.update_rubygems
-            patch_after_rubygems_update(target_dir, deploy_helper.ruby_api_version)
-          end
-          deploy_helper.deploy
-        end
+      def finalize(os_type, src_dir, app_name)
+        puts "-- Finalizing packaging"
+        exe_suffix = Packager::PatchHelpers.exe_suffix(os_type)
+        package_name = "#{app_name}#{exe_suffix}"
+        Tebako::Stripper.strip_file(File.join(src_dir, "ruby#{exe_suffix}"), package_name)
+
+        puts "Created tebako package at \"#{package_name}\""
       end
 
       # Init
@@ -188,13 +192,6 @@ def ruby_version(tbd)
         end
         ruby_version
       end
-
-      def patch_after_rubygems_update(target_dir, ruby_api_ver)
-        # Autoload cannot handle statically linked openssl extension
-        # Changing it to require seems to be the simplest solution
-        PatchHelpers.patch_file("#{target_dir}/lib/ruby/site_ruby/#{ruby_api_ver}/rubygems/openssl.rb",
-                                { "autoload :OpenSSL, \"openssl\"" => "require \"openssl\"" })
-      end
     end
   end
 end
diff --git a/lib/tebako/packager/patch_helpers.rb b/lib/tebako/packager/patch_helpers.rb
index d05ac164..13413690 100755
--- a/lib/tebako/packager/patch_helpers.rb
+++ b/lib/tebako/packager/patch_helpers.rb
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ def get_prefix_linux(package)
           out
         end
 
+        def exe_suffix(ostype)
+          msys?(ostype) ? ".exe" : ""
+        end
+
         def msys?(ostype)
           ostype =~ /msys|cygwin|mingw/
         end
diff --git a/lib/tebako/packager/patch_libraries.rb b/lib/tebako/packager/patch_libraries.rb
index 6110bba3..c948203a 100644
--- a/lib/tebako/packager/patch_libraries.rb
+++ b/lib/tebako/packager/patch_libraries.rb
@@ -40,13 +40,12 @@ class << self
         DARWIN_BREW_LIBS = [
           ["zlib", "z"],            ["gdbm", "gdbm"],           ["readline", "readline"], ["libffi", "ffi"],
           ["ncurses", "ncurses"],   ["fmt", "fmt"],             ["lz4", "lz4"],           ["xz", "lzma"],
-          ["libyaml", "yaml"],      ["boost", "boost_chrono"],
-          ["double-conversion", "double-conversion"]
+          ["libyaml", "yaml"],      ["boost", "boost_chrono"],  ["double-conversion", "double-conversion"]
         ].freeze
 
         DARWIN_BREW_LIBS_PRE_31 = [["openssl@1.1", "ssl"], ["openssl@1.1", "crypto"]].freeze
 
-        DARWIN_BREW_LIBS_31 = [["libyaml", "yaml"], ["openssl@3", "ssl"], ["openssl@3", "crypto"]].freeze
+        DARWIN_BREW_LIBS_31 = [["openssl@3", "ssl"], ["openssl@3", "crypto"]].freeze
 
         DARWIN_DEP_LIBS = ["glog", "gflags", "brotlienc", "brotlidec", "brotlicommon"].freeze
         # rubocop:enable Style/WordArray
diff --git a/lib/tebako/stripper.rb b/lib/tebako/stripper.rb
index 5b1bc723..a6949570 100644
--- a/lib/tebako/stripper.rb
+++ b/lib/tebako/stripper.rb
@@ -28,12 +28,14 @@
 require "fileutils"
 require "find"
 
+require_relative "packager/patch_helpers"
+
 # Tebako - an executable packager
 module Tebako
   # Tebako packaging support (stripper)
   module Stripper
     DELETE_EXTENSIONS = %w[o lo obj a lib].freeze
-    STRIP_EXTENSIONS = %w[dll so].freeze
+    STRIP_EXTENSIONS = %w[dll so bundle dylib].freeze
     BIN_FILES = %w[
       bundle bundler rbs erb gem irb racc racc2y rake rdoc ri y2racc rdbg typeprof
     ].freeze
@@ -47,15 +49,22 @@ class << self
       #        from memfs or not. For debugging purposes it is very handy to have it here
       def strip(ostype, src_dir)
         puts "   ... stripping the output"
-        strip_bs(ostype, src_dir)
+        strip_bs(src_dir)
         strip_fi(ostype, src_dir)
-        strip_li(ostype, src_dir)
+        strip_li(src_dir)
+      end
+
+      def strip_file(file_in, file_out = nil)
+        params = ["strip", "-S", file_in]
+        params << "-o" << file_out unless file_out.nil?
+        out, st = Open3.capture2e(*params)
+        raise Tebako::Error, "Failed to strip #{file_in}:\n #{out}" unless st.exitstatus.zero?
       end
 
       private
 
       def get_files(ostype)
-        exe_suffix = ostype =~ /msys/ ? ".exe" : ""
+        exe_suffix = Packager::PatchHelpers.exe_suffix(ostype)
         files = BIN_FILES.flat_map do |f|
           [f, "#{f}#{CMD_SUFFIX}", "#{f}#{BAT_SUFFIX}"]
         end
@@ -64,7 +73,7 @@ def get_files(ostype)
         files
       end
 
-      def strip_bs(_ostype, src_dir)
+      def strip_bs(src_dir)
         FileUtils.rm_rf([
                           File.join(src_dir, "share"),
                           File.join(src_dir, "include"),
@@ -77,7 +86,7 @@ def strip_fi(ostype, src_dir)
         FileUtils.rm(files, force: true)
       end
 
-      def strip_li(ostype, src_dir)
+      def strip_li(src_dir)
         Find.find(src_dir) do |file|
           next if File.directory?(file)
 
@@ -85,7 +94,7 @@ def strip_li(ostype, src_dir)
           if DELETE_EXTENSIONS.include?(extension)
             FileUtils.rm(file)
           elsif STRIP_EXTENSIONS.include?(extension)
-            system("strip \"#{file}\"") unless ostype =~ /darwin/
+            strip_file(file)
           end
         end
       end
diff --git a/lib/tebako/version.rb b/lib/tebako/version.rb
index b3fc9f16..91aec1e9 100644
--- a/lib/tebako/version.rb
+++ b/lib/tebako/version.rb
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@
 # POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 module Tebako
-  VERSION = "0.7.3"
+  VERSION = "0.7.4"
 end
diff --git a/tests/scripts/functional-tests.sh b/tests/scripts/functional-tests.sh
index c4d1a83e..4e647ce1 100755
--- a/tests/scripts/functional-tests.sh
+++ b/tests/scripts/functional-tests.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ press_runner() {
 
 # Check the first and the last messages expected from CMake script
    assertContains "$result" "Running tebako press script"
-   assertContains "$result" "packaging has completed"
+   assertContains "$result" "Created tebako package at"
 }
 
 package_runner() {
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ test_AUC_extract() {
 
    assertEquals 0 "${PIPESTATUS[0]}"
    assertContains "$result" "Running tebako press script"
-   assertContains "$result" "packaging has completed"
+   assertContains "$result" "Created tebako package at"
 
    ./test-AUC-package --tebako-extract
    assertEquals 0 "${PIPESTATUS[0]}"