diff --git a/src/arch/intsimdmatrix.cpp b/src/arch/intsimdmatrix.cpp
index 509aec7a13..222ae78645 100644
--- a/src/arch/intsimdmatrix.cpp
+++ b/src/arch/intsimdmatrix.cpp
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@
 namespace tesseract {
 
 const IntSimdMatrix* IntSimdMatrix::intSimdMatrix = nullptr;
-const IntSimdMatrix IntSimdMatrix::IntSimdMatrixNative =
-  IntSimdMatrix(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, {});
 
 // Computes a reshaped copy of the weight matrix w. If there are no
 // partial_funcs_, it does nothing.
diff --git a/src/arch/intsimdmatrix.h b/src/arch/intsimdmatrix.h
index 09ba4b050b..66034020ac 100644
--- a/src/arch/intsimdmatrix.h
+++ b/src/arch/intsimdmatrix.h
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ class IntSimdMatrix {
   static const IntSimdMatrix* intSimdMatrix;
   static const IntSimdMatrix IntSimdMatrixAVX2;
   static const IntSimdMatrix IntSimdMatrixSSE;
-  static const IntSimdMatrix IntSimdMatrixNative;
 
  protected:
   // Rounds the input up to a multiple of the given factor.
diff --git a/unittest/intsimdmatrix_test.cc b/unittest/intsimdmatrix_test.cc
index a997d95929..70bc7eb657 100644
--- a/unittest/intsimdmatrix_test.cc
+++ b/unittest/intsimdmatrix_test.cc
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 namespace tesseract {
 namespace {
 
+static const IntSimdMatrix IntSimdMatrixNative = IntSimdMatrix(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, {});
+
 class IntSimdMatrixTest : public ::testing::Test {
  protected:
   // Makes a random weights matrix of the given size.
@@ -64,7 +66,7 @@ class IntSimdMatrixTest : public ::testing::Test {
         GenericVector<double> scales = RandomScales(num_out);
         std::vector<double> base_result(num_out);
         std::vector<int8_t> dummy;
-        IntSimdMatrix::IntSimdMatrixNative.MatrixDotVector(w, dummy, scales, u.data(), base_result.data());
+        IntSimdMatrixNative.MatrixDotVector(w, dummy, scales, u.data(), base_result.data());
         std::vector<double> test_result(num_out);
         std::vector<int8_t> shaped_wi;
         matrix.Init(w, shaped_wi);