diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index bf1afcc310..a28b0e5f5a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 before_install:
   - "sudo pip install http://closure-linter.googlecode.com/files/closure_linter-latest.tar.gz"
+  - "sudo pip install regex"
   - "git clone --depth=50 https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc build/jsdoc"
   - "git clone https://code.google.com/p/glsl-unit/ build/glsl-unit"
 
diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index b01ce9af01..76461605e4 100755
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import gzip
 import json
 import os
 import os.path
-import re
+import regex as re
 import shutil
 import sys