diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 56b5619..4ded6a3 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 [submodule "sqlcipher"]
 	path = sqlcipher
 	url = https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher.git
-[submodule "lipo-dir-merge"]
-	path = lipo-dir-merge
-	url = https://github.com/faaxm/lipo-dir-merge.git
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index b59656f..ab61d1b 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -5,6 +5,5 @@ include setup.py
 recursive-include src *.h
 recursive-include src *.c
 include conanfile.py
-include lipo-dir-merge/lipo-dir-merge.py
 
 global-exclude *~ *.pyc
diff --git a/lipo-dir-merge b/lipo-dir-merge
deleted file mode 160000
index f44b429..0000000
--- a/lipo-dir-merge
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit f44b429b4deed821f7a924d527ace236afe54543
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a6e5c04..8b845b6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ requires = [
     "conan>=2.0",
     "setuptools>=45",
     "wheel",
+    "lipomerge",
 ]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e20289d..fae65e2 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -181,7 +181,8 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
         subprocess.run(
             [
                 "python3",
-                "lipo-dir-merge/lipo-dir-merge.py",
+                "-m",
+                "lipomerge",
                 lipo_dir_merge_src,
                 lipo_dir_merge_dst,
                 lipo_dir_merge_result,