diff --git a/panda/src/express/memoryUsagePointers.cxx b/panda/src/express/memoryUsagePointers.cxx
index 72a39ce6f7..3c6f26eb26 100644
--- a/panda/src/express/memoryUsagePointers.cxx
+++ b/panda/src/express/memoryUsagePointers.cxx
@@ -30,9 +30,11 @@
 
 #include "py_panda.h"  
 
+#ifndef CPPPARSER
 extern EXPCL_PANDAEXPRESS Dtool_PyTypedObject Dtool_TypedObject;
 extern EXPCL_PANDAEXPRESS Dtool_PyTypedObject Dtool_TypedReferenceCount;
 extern EXPCL_PANDAEXPRESS Dtool_PyTypedObject Dtool_ReferenceCount;
+#endif  // CPPPARSER
 
 #endif  // HAVE_PYTHON