diff --git a/examples/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index b68f9706..00000000
--- a/examples/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-# 3 june 2016
-
-if(WIN32)
-	set(_EXAMPLE_RESOURCES_RC resources.rc)
-endif()
-
-macro(_add_example _name)
-	_add_exec(${_name} ${ARGN})
-	# because Microsoft's toolchain is dumb
-	if(MSVC)
-		set_property(TARGET ${_name} APPEND_STRING PROPERTY
-			LINK_FLAGS " /ENTRY:mainCRTStartup")
-	endif()
-endmacro()
-
-_add_example(controlgallery
-	controlgallery/main.c
-	${_EXAMPLE_RESOURCES_RC}
-)
-
-_add_example(histogram
-	histogram/main.c
-	${_EXAMPLE_RESOURCES_RC}
-)
-
-_add_example(cpp-multithread
-	cpp-multithread/main.cpp
-	${_EXAMPLE_RESOURCES_RC}
-)
-if(NOT WIN32)
-	target_link_libraries(cpp-multithread pthread)
-endif()
-if(APPLE)
-	# since we use a deployment target of 10.8, the non-C++11-compliant libstdc++ is chosen by default; we need C++11
-	# see issue #302 for more details
-	target_compile_options(cpp-multithread PRIVATE --stdlib=libc++)
-	target_link_libraries(cpp-multithread --stdlib=libc++)
-endif()
-
-_add_example(drawtext
-	drawtext/main.c
-	${_EXAMPLE_RESOURCES_RC}
-)
-
-_add_example(timer
-        timer/main.c
-        ${_EXAMPLE_RESOURCES_RC}
-)
-
-_add_example(datetime
-	datetime/main.c
-	${_EXAMPLE_RESOURCES_RC}
-)
-
-add_custom_target(examples
-	DEPENDS
-		controlgallery
-		histogram
-		cpp-multithread
-		drawtext
-		timer
-		datetime)
diff --git a/examples/meson.build b/examples/meson.build
index 8e50feeb..31a47a83 100644
--- a/examples/meson.build
+++ b/examples/meson.build
@@ -59,3 +59,5 @@ foreach name, args : libui_examples
 		gui_app: false,
 		install: false)
 endforeach
+
+# TODO define the top-level examples target here