diff --git a/windows/CMakeLists.txt b/windows/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index ac9af411..00000000
--- a/windows/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,94 +0,0 @@
-# 3 june 2016
-
-list(APPEND _LIBUI_SOURCES
-	windows/alloc.cpp
-	windows/area.cpp
-	windows/areadraw.cpp
-	windows/areaevents.cpp
-	windows/areascroll.cpp
-	windows/areautil.cpp
-	windows/attrstr.cpp
-	windows/box.cpp
-	windows/button.cpp
-	windows/checkbox.cpp
-	windows/colorbutton.cpp
-	windows/colordialog.cpp
-	windows/combobox.cpp
-	windows/container.cpp
-	windows/control.cpp
-	windows/d2dscratch.cpp
-	windows/datetimepicker.cpp
-	windows/debug.cpp
-	windows/draw.cpp
-	windows/drawmatrix.cpp
-	windows/drawpath.cpp
-	windows/drawtext.cpp
-	windows/dwrite.cpp
-	windows/editablecombo.cpp
-	windows/entry.cpp
-	windows/events.cpp
-	windows/fontbutton.cpp
-	windows/fontdialog.cpp
-	windows/fontmatch.cpp
-	windows/form.cpp
-	windows/graphemes.cpp
-	windows/grid.cpp
-	windows/group.cpp
-	windows/image.cpp
-	windows/init.cpp
-	windows/label.cpp
-	windows/main.cpp
-	windows/menu.cpp
-	windows/multilineentry.cpp
-	windows/opentype.cpp
-	windows/parent.cpp
-	windows/progressbar.cpp
-	windows/radiobuttons.cpp
-	windows/separator.cpp
-	windows/sizing.cpp
-	windows/slider.cpp
-	windows/spinbox.cpp
-	windows/stddialogs.cpp
-	windows/tab.cpp
-	windows/table.cpp
-	windows/tabledispinfo.cpp
-	windows/tabledraw.cpp
-	windows/tableediting.cpp
-	windows/tablemetrics.cpp
-	windows/tabpage.cpp
-	windows/text.cpp
-	windows/utf16.cpp
-	windows/utilwin.cpp
-	windows/window.cpp
-	windows/winpublic.cpp
-	windows/winutil.cpp
-)
-# resources.rc only contains the libui manifest.
-# For a DLL, we have to include this directly, so we do so.
-# Windows won't link resources in static libraries, so including this would have no effect.
-# In those cases, we just need them to include the manifest with the executable (or link it directly into the output executable themselves); they can also customize the manifest as they see fit (assuming nothing breaks in the process).
-# TODO make sure this gets added to both binary-only archives and install rules in this case
-if(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
-	list(APPEND _LIBUI_SOURCES
-		windows/resources.rc
-	)
-endif()
-set(_LIBUI_SOURCES ${_LIBUI_SOURCES} PARENT_SCOPE)
-
-list(APPEND _LIBUI_INCLUDEDIRS
-	windows
-)
-set(_LIBUI_INCLUDEDIRS _LIBUI_INCLUDEDIRS PARENT_SCOPE)
-
-# TODO prune this list
-set(_LIBUI_LIBS
-	user32 kernel32 gdi32 comctl32 uxtheme msimg32 comdlg32 d2d1 dwrite ole32 oleaut32 oleacc uuid windowscodecs
-PARENT_SCOPE)
-
-if(NOT MSVC)
-	if(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
-		message(FATAL_ERROR
-			"Sorry, but libui for Windows can currently only be built as a static library with MinGW. You will need to either build as a static library or switch to MSVC."
-		)
-	endif()
-endif()
diff --git a/windows/meson.build b/windows/meson.build
index ac02be25..1d1a3baf 100644
--- a/windows/meson.build
+++ b/windows/meson.build
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ if libui_mode == 'shared'
 	]
 endif
 
+# TODO prune this list
+# TODO find out if we can just pass libui_winlibs to find_library()
 libui_winlibs = 'user32 kernel32 gdi32 comctl32 uxtheme msimg32 comdlg32 d2d1 dwrite ole32 oleaut32 oleacc uuid windowscodecs'.split(' ')
 foreach lib : libui_winlibs
 	libui_deps += [