diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 4ac9b6564a..258f8197c8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: unit tests
         run: |
           ./src/valkey-unit-tests
-  
+
   build-debian-old:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     container: debian:buster
diff --git a/src/defrag.c b/src/defrag.c
index 4d34009f8b..074bb1a5a3 100644
--- a/src/defrag.c
+++ b/src/defrag.c
@@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ robj *activeDefragStringOb(robj *ob) {
     return activeDefragStringObEx(ob, 1);
 }
 
+#ifdef USE_LUA
 /* Defrag helper for lua scripts
  *
  * returns NULL in case the allocation wasn't moved.
@@ -189,6 +190,7 @@ luaScript *activeDefragLuaScript(luaScript *script) {
 
     return ret;
 }
+#endif
 
 /* Defrag helper for dict main allocations (dict struct, and hash tables).
  * Receives a pointer to the dict* and return a new dict* when the dict
@@ -302,7 +304,9 @@ void activeDefragSdsDict(dict *d, int val_type) {
         .defragVal = (val_type == DEFRAG_SDS_DICT_VAL_IS_SDS       ? (dictDefragAllocFunction *)activeDefragSds
                       : val_type == DEFRAG_SDS_DICT_VAL_IS_STROB   ? (dictDefragAllocFunction *)activeDefragStringOb
                       : val_type == DEFRAG_SDS_DICT_VAL_VOID_PTR   ? (dictDefragAllocFunction *)activeDefragAlloc
+#ifdef USE_LUA
                       : val_type == DEFRAG_SDS_DICT_VAL_LUA_SCRIPT ? (dictDefragAllocFunction *)activeDefragLuaScript
+#endif
                                                                    : NULL)};
     do {
         cursor = dictScanDefrag(d, cursor, activeDefragSdsDictCallback, &defragfns, NULL);
@@ -812,7 +816,9 @@ void defragOtherGlobals(void) {
     /* there are many more pointers to defrag (e.g. client argv, output / aof buffers, etc.
      * but we assume most of these are short lived, we only need to defrag allocations
      * that remain static for a long time */
+#ifdef USE_LUA
     activeDefragSdsDict(evalScriptsDict(), DEFRAG_SDS_DICT_VAL_LUA_SCRIPT);
+#endif
     moduleDefragGlobals();
     kvstoreDictLUTDefrag(server.pubsub_channels, dictDefragTables);
     kvstoreDictLUTDefrag(server.pubsubshard_channels, dictDefragTables);