diff --git a/library/platform/native/boot.factor b/library/platform/native/boot.factor
index 06600f61dc..eb5e241bd2 100644
--- a/library/platform/native/boot.factor
+++ b/library/platform/native/boot.factor
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@ primitives,
     "/library/platform/native/stream.factor"
     "/library/platform/native/kernel.factor"
     "/library/platform/native/namespaces.factor"
+    "/library/platform/native/strings.factor"
     "/library/platform/native/parse-numbers.factor"
     "/library/platform/native/parser.factor"
     "/library/platform/native/parse-syntax.factor"
@@ -94,7 +95,6 @@ primitives,
     "/library/platform/native/prettyprint.factor"
     "/library/platform/native/random.factor"
     "/library/platform/native/stack.factor"
-    "/library/platform/native/strings.factor"
     "/library/platform/native/words.factor"
     "/library/platform/native/vocabularies.factor"
     "/library/platform/native/unparser.factor"