diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index b3712f231..f99c7349f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -131,12 +131,8 @@ jobs:
         # requires running webpack, so we need nodejs here
         - travis_retry nvm install $(< .nvmrc)
       script:
-        # compile assets via webpack and build those into bindata_assetfs.go file
-        - travis_retry make bindata_assetfs.go
-        # and now compile using bakelite for all target archs
-        - travis_retry go install github.com/terinjokes/bakelite
         - export SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=$(git show -s --format=%ci ${TRAVIS_TAG:-${TRAVIS_COMMIT}}^{commit})
-        - bakelite -platforms="-plan9" -ldflags="-X main.version=\"$(make show-version)\"" github.com/prymitive/karma
+        - make crosscompile -j 2
         - for i in karma-*; do tar --mtime="${SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH}" --owner=0 --group=0 --numeric-owner -c $i | gzip -n - > $i.tar.gz; done
         - shasum -a 512 karma-*.tar.gz | tee sha512sum.txt
         # verify that there are no uncommited changes
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b9f50c0f0..c64a65c94 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -54,6 +54,21 @@ bindata_assetfs.go: .build/deps-build-go.ok .build/artifacts-bindata_assetfs.$(G
 $(NAME): .build/deps-build-go.ok go.mod bindata_assetfs.go $(SOURCES)
 	GO111MODULE=on go build -ldflags "-X main.version=$(VERSION)"
 
+word-split = $(word $2,$(subst -, ,$1))
+cc-%: .build/deps-build-go.ok go.mod bindata_assetfs.go $(SOURCES)
+	$(eval GOOS := $(call word-split,$*,1))
+	$(eval GOARCH := $(call word-split,$*,2))
+	$(eval GOARM := $(call word-split,$*,3))
+	$(eval GOARMBIN := $(patsubst %,v%,$(GOARM)))
+	$(eval GOEXT := $(patsubst $(GOOS),,$(patsubst windows,.exe,$(GOOS))))
+	$(eval BINARY := "karma-$(GOOS)-$(GOARCH)$(GOARMBIN)$(GOEXT)")
+	@echo $(BINARY) $(GOOS) $(GOARCH) $(GOARM) | awk '{ printf "%-25s GOOS=%-10s GOARCH=%-10s GOARM=%1s\n", $$1, $$2, $$3, $$4 }'
+	@env CGO_ENABLED=0 GOOS=$(GOOS) GOARCH=$(GOARCH) GOARM=$(GOARM) go build -o $(BINARY) -ldflags="-X main.version=$(shell make show-version)"
+
+PLATFORMS := cc-darwin-386 cc-darwin-amd64 cc-dragonfly-amd64 cc-freebsd-386 cc-freebsd-amd64 cc-freebsd-arm-5 cc-freebsd-arm-6 cc-freebsd-arm-7 cc-linux-386 cc-linux-amd64 cc-linux-arm-5 cc-linux-arm-6 cc-linux-arm-7 cc-linux-arm64 cc-linux-ppc64 cc-linux-ppc64le cc-linux-mips cc-linux-mipsle cc-linux-mips64 cc-linux-mips64le cc-linux-s390x cc-netbsd-386 cc-netbsd-amd64 cc-netbsd-arm-5 cc-netbsd-arm-6 cc-netbsd-arm-7 cc-openbsd-386 cc-openbsd-amd64 cc-openbsd-arm-5 cc-openbsd-arm-6 cc-openbsd-arm-7 cc-solaris-amd64 cc-windows-386 cc-windows-amd64
+crosscompile: $(PLATFORMS)
+	@echo
+
 .PHONY: clean
 clean:
 	rm -fr .build bindata_assetfs.go $(NAME) ui/build ui/node_modules coverage.txt
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 8fb158614..bedb738aa 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.4.2
 	github.com/spf13/pflag v1.0.3
 	github.com/spf13/viper v1.4.0
-	github.com/terinjokes/bakelite v0.2.0
 	github.com/xlab/handysort v0.0.0-20150421192137-fb3537ed64a1 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/go-playground/colors.v1 v1.2.0
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v2 v2.2.2
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index b6a392fef..a1ddbd409 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -405,8 +405,6 @@ github.com/stretchr/testify v1.2.2 h1:bSDNvY7ZPG5RlJ8otE/7V6gMiyenm9RtJ7IUVIAoJ1
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.2.2/go.mod h1:a8OnRcib4nhh0OaRAV+Yts87kKdq0PP7pXfy6kDkUVs=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.3.0 h1:TivCn/peBQ7UY8ooIcPgZFpTNSz0Q2U6UrFlUfqbe0Q=
 github.com/stretchr/testify v1.3.0/go.mod h1:M5WIy9Dh21IEIfnGCwXGc5bZfKNJtfHm1UVUgZn+9EI=
-github.com/terinjokes/bakelite v0.2.0 h1:JGi8jKb3aJqICvSKnDOeitMW+bI+mGTamVLaXDx9KOM=
-github.com/terinjokes/bakelite v0.2.0/go.mod h1:0kyG4J0HmOjPP7UkdsV/6zaBfpd7ZpfB9kkUrfFI6Qw=
 github.com/tidwall/pretty v1.0.0 h1:HsD+QiTn7sK6flMKIvNmpqz1qrpP3Ps6jOKIKMooyg4=
 github.com/tidwall/pretty v1.0.0/go.mod h1:XNkn88O1ChpSDQmQeStsy+sBenx6DDtFZJxhVysOjyk=
 github.com/timakin/bodyclose v0.0.0-20190407043127-4a873e97b2bb h1:lI9ufgFfvuqRctP9Ny8lDDLbSWCMxBPletcSqrnyFYM=
diff --git a/tools.go b/tools.go
index 1ee62ab05..6c5dec879 100644
--- a/tools.go
+++ b/tools.go
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ import (
 	_ "github.com/elazarl/go-bindata-assetfs"
 	_ "github.com/go-bindata/go-bindata"
 	_ "github.com/golangci/golangci-lint/pkg/commands"
-	_ "github.com/terinjokes/bakelite"
 )