Symbolic computation is an important approach in automated program analysis. Most state-of-the-art tools perform symbolic computation as interpreters and directly maintain symbolic data. In this paper, we show that it is feasible, and in fact practical, to use a compiler-based strategy instead. Using compiler tooling, we propose and implement a transformation which takes a standard program and outputs a program that performs a semantically equivalent, but partially symbolic, computation. The transformed program maintains symbolic values internally and operates directly on them; therefore, the program can be processed by a tool without support for symbolic manipulation.