diff --git a/common/CMakeLists.txt b/common/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 0e1360d8..00000000
--- a/common/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-# 3 june 2016
-
-list(APPEND _LIBUI_SOURCES
-	common/attribute.c
-	common/attrlist.c
-	common/attrstr.c
-	common/areaevents.c
-	common/control.c
-	common/debug.c
-	common/matrix.c
-	common/opentype.c
-	common/shouldquit.c
-	common/tablemodel.c
-	common/tablevalue.c
-	common/userbugs.c
-	common/utf.c
-)
-set(_LIBUI_SOURCES ${_LIBUI_SOURCES} PARENT_SCOPE)
-
-list(APPEND _LIBUI_INCLUDEDIRS
-	common
-)
-set(_LIBUI_INCLUDEDIRS ${_LIBUI_INCLUDEDIRS} PARENT_SCOPE)