diff --git a/srcpkgs/rapidjson/template b/srcpkgs/rapidjson/template
index 8597f8fb270..99d92702cc9 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/rapidjson/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/rapidjson/template
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ distfiles="https://github.com/miloyip/${pkgname}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=bf7ced29704a1e696fbccf2a2b4ea068e7774fa37f6d7dd4039d0787f8bed98e
 
 # class-memaccess is required by https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson/issues/1700
-CXXFLAGS="-Wno-type-limits -Wno-error=class-memaccess"
+CXXFLAGS="-Wno-type-limits -Wno-error=class-memaccess -DNDEBUG"
 
 post_patch() {
 	# Remove bin/jsonchecker, which is the JSON licensed files