diff --git a/contrib/gitian.yml b/contrib/gitian.yml
index c4cdc89911..9f03ba1bc4 100644
--- a/contrib/gitian.yml
+++ b/contrib/gitian.yml
@@ -12,12 +12,13 @@ packages:
 - "libboost-all-dev"
 - "libssl-dev"
 - "git-core"
+- "unzip"
 reference_datetime: "2011-01-30 00:00:00"
 remotes:
 - "url": "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.git"
   "dir": "bitcoin"
 files:
-- "wxWidgets-2.9.2.tar.bz2"
+- "wxWidgets-2.9.2-gitian.zip"
 - "miniupnpc-1.6.tar.gz"
 script: |
   INSTDIR="$HOME/install"
@@ -28,11 +29,17 @@ script: |
   INSTALLPREFIX=$INSTDIR make $MAKEOPTS install
   cd ..
   #
-  tar xjf wxWidgets-2.9.2.tar.bz2
+  mkdir -p $INSTDIR/bin $INSTDIR/lib/wx $INSTDIR/include
+  mkdir wxWidgets-2.9.2
   cd wxWidgets-2.9.2
-  ./configure --prefix=$INSTDIR --enable-monolithic --disable-shared
-  perl -i -p -e "s/__TIME__/\"$REFERENCE_TIME\"/;s/__DATE__/\"$REFERENCE_DATE\"/" include/wx/chartype.h
-  make $MAKEOPTS install
+  unzip ../wxWidgets-2.9.2-gitian.zip
+  cp -a bin/$GBUILD_BITS/wx/config/gtk2-unicode-static-2.9 $INSTDIR/bin/wx-config
+  for lib in wx_gtk2u wxregexu wxtiff; do
+    ar rc $INSTDIR/lib/lib${lib}-2.9.a bin/$GBUILD_BITS/$lib/*.o
+    ranlib $INSTDIR/lib/lib${lib}-2.9.a
+  done
+  cp -a include/wx-2.9/* $INSTDIR/include
+  cp -a bin/$GBUILD_BITS/wx/include $INSTDIR/lib/wx
   cd ..
   #
   cd bitcoin