diff --git a/common/common.h b/common/common.h
index 804485fb19..6410248377 100644
--- a/common/common.h
+++ b/common/common.h
@@ -670,7 +670,7 @@ static std::vector<T> string_split(const std::string & str, char delim) {
 }
 
 template<>
-std::vector<std::string> string_split<std::string>(const std::string & input, char separator)
+inline std::vector<std::string> string_split<std::string>(const std::string & input, char separator)
 {
     std::vector<std::string> parts;
     size_t begin_pos = 0;
@@ -685,7 +685,7 @@ std::vector<std::string> string_split<std::string>(const std::string & input, ch
     return parts;
 }
 
-static bool string_starts_with(const std::string & str,
+inline bool string_starts_with(const std::string & str,
                                const std::string & prefix) {  // While we wait for C++20's std::string::starts_with...
     return str.rfind(prefix, 0) == 0;
 }
@@ -870,11 +870,11 @@ const char * const LLM_KV_SPLIT_TENSORS_COUNT = "split.tensors.count";
 
 const char * const LLM_FFN_EXPS_REGEX = "\\.ffn_(up|down|gate)_(ch|)exps";
 
-static std::string llm_ffn_exps_block_regex(int idx) {
+inline std::string llm_ffn_exps_block_regex(int idx) {
     return string_format("blk\\.%d%s", idx, LLM_FFN_EXPS_REGEX);
 }
 
-static llama_model_tensor_buft_override llm_ffn_exps_cpu_override() {
+inline llama_model_tensor_buft_override llm_ffn_exps_cpu_override() {
     return { LLM_FFN_EXPS_REGEX, ggml_backend_cpu_buffer_type() };
 }