diff --git a/cmd/gui/scripts/dist-win-docker.sh b/cmd/gui/scripts/dist-win-docker.sh
index 527b000..e6bc6f1 100755
--- a/cmd/gui/scripts/dist-win-docker.sh
+++ b/cmd/gui/scripts/dist-win-docker.sh
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # One-shot Windows release build for the GUI — ENTIRELY inside docker.
 #
-#   1) cross-compile the embedded core in docker (llmsproxy.exe + lua51.dll)
+#   1) cross-compile the embedded core in docker (modelrouter.exe + lua51.dll)
 #   2) electron-builder NSIS packaging ALSO inside docker (wine for the
 #      uninstaller step lives in the image — see Dockerfile). This is the fix
 #      for the 1.3.0/1.4.0 broken installers: the host had amd64-only wine
@@ -37,13 +37,15 @@ docker run --rm \
   -v "$ROOT":/workspace \
   -v "$CACHE_VOL":/root/.cache \
   -e GOPROXY="$PROXY" \
+  -e ELECTRON_MIRROR="https://npmmirror.com/mirrors/electron/" \
+  -e ELECTRON_BUILDER_BINARIES_MIRROR="https://npmmirror.com/mirrors/electron-builder-binaries/" \
   -w /workspace \
   "$IMAGE" bash -c '
     set -euo pipefail
     cp /opt/luajit2/src/lua51.dll /workspace/cmd/gui/bin/lua51.dll
     GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 CGO_ENABLED=1 CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc \
       go build -buildvcs=false -tags luajit -trimpath \
-      -o /workspace/cmd/gui/bin/llmsproxy.exe ./cmd/llmsproxy
+      -o /workspace/cmd/gui/bin/modelrouter.exe ./cmd/modelrouter
     echo "  -> core built"
     # wine needs one prefix initialization so its wow64 runtime (syswow64/ntdll)
     # exists — the exact thing that was missing on the broken host. Use a shared
diff --git a/cmd/gui/scripts/prepare-core.js b/cmd/gui/scripts/prepare-core.js
index 1accfe3..79111c6 100644
--- a/cmd/gui/scripts/prepare-core.js
+++ b/cmd/gui/scripts/prepare-core.js
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ function buildLinux() {
   fs.mkdirSync(binDir, { recursive: true });
   execFileSync(
     "go",
-    ["build", "-tags", "luajit", "-trimpath", "-o", out, "./cmd/modelrouter"],
+    // -s -w: same stripping as packaging/core-dist.sh. Without it the bundled
+    // core carries debug info (~14.4 MB vs ~10.3 MB) and every installer pays
+    // for it, for a binary the user never debugs.
+    ["build", "-tags", "luajit", "-trimpath", "-ldflags", "-s -w", "-o", out, "./cmd/modelrouter"],
     { cwd: projectRoot, stdio: "inherit" },
   );
   return out;
@@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ function buildWin() {
   }
   execFileSync(
     "go",
-    ["build", "-tags", "luajit", "-trimpath", "-o", out, "./cmd/modelrouter"],
+    ["build", "-tags", "luajit", "-trimpath", "-ldflags", "-s -w", "-o", out, "./cmd/modelrouter"],
     {
       cwd: projectRoot,
       stdio: "inherit",