diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index fd567b3..2508d5f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -54,9 +54,13 @@ if (CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID MATCHES "Clang")
 endif()
 
 # hyprcursor-util
-add_subdirectory(hyprcursor-util)
-
-install(TARGETS hyprcursor)
+file(GLOB_RECURSE UTILSRCFILES CONFIGURE_DEPENDS "hyprcursor-util/src/*.cpp" "include/hyprcursor/hyprcursor.hpp" "include/hyprcursor/hyprcursor.h" "include/hyprcursor/shared.h")
+add_executable(hyprcursor-util ${UTILSRCFILES})
+target_include_directories(hyprcursor-util
+    PUBLIC "./include"
+    PRIVATE "./libhyprcursor" "./hyprcursor-util/src"
+)
+target_link_libraries(hyprcursor-util PkgConfig::deps hyprcursor)
 
 # tests
 add_custom_target(tests)
@@ -72,5 +76,7 @@ add_test(NAME "Test libhyprcursor in C" WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/te
 add_dependencies(tests hyprcursor_test_c)
 
 # Installation
+install(TARGETS hyprcursor)
+install(TARGETS hyprcursor-util)
 install(DIRECTORY "include/hyprcursor" DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR})
 install(FILES ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/hyprcursor.pc DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/pkgconfig)
diff --git a/hyprcursor-util/CMakeLists.txt b/hyprcursor-util/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 24f522d..0000000
--- a/hyprcursor-util/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.19)
-
-project(
-    hyprcursor-util
-    DESCRIPTION "A utility for creating and converting hyprcursor themes"
-)
-
-find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
-pkg_check_modules(deps REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET hyprlang>=0.4.0 libzip)
-add_compile_definitions(HYPRCURSOR_VERSION="${HYPRCURSOR_VERSION}")
-
-file(GLOB_RECURSE SRCFILES CONFIGURE_DEPENDS "src/*.cpp")
-file(GLOB_RECURSE HCFILES CONFIGURE_DEPENDS "libhyprcursor/*.cpp")
-
-set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 23)
-
-add_executable(hyprcursor-util ${SRCFILES} ${HCFILES})
-
-target_link_libraries(hyprcursor-util PkgConfig::deps)
-target_include_directories(hyprcursor-util
-PRIVATE
-    .
-)
-
-install(TARGETS hyprcursor-util)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hyprcursor-util/libhyprcursor b/hyprcursor-util/libhyprcursor
deleted file mode 120000
index 05d7f90..0000000
--- a/hyprcursor-util/libhyprcursor
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../libhyprcursor
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/hyprcursor-util/src/main.cpp b/hyprcursor-util/src/main.cpp
index 1c6d24b..56ba21c 100644
--- a/hyprcursor-util/src/main.cpp
+++ b/hyprcursor-util/src/main.cpp
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 #include <format>
 #include <algorithm>
 #include <hyprlang.hpp>
-#include "../libhyprcursor/internalSharedTypes.hpp"
-#include "../libhyprcursor/manifest.hpp"
-#include "../libhyprcursor/meta.hpp"
+#include "internalSharedTypes.hpp"
+#include "manifest.hpp"
+#include "meta.hpp"
 
 enum eOperation {
     OPERATION_CREATE  = 0,