diff --git a/bolt/lib/Target/AArch64/CMakeLists.txt b/bolt/lib/Target/AArch64/CMakeLists.txt
index 96c70168196e..29753969e85e 100644
--- a/bolt/lib/Target/AArch64/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/bolt/lib/Target/AArch64/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 set(LLVM_LINK_COMPONENTS
-  BOLTCore
   MC
   Support
   AArch64Desc
@@ -12,6 +11,8 @@ add_llvm_library(LLVMBOLTTargetAArch64
   AArch64CommonTableGen
   )
 
+target_link_libraries(LLVMBOLTTargetAArch64 PRIVATE LLVMBOLTCore)
+
 include_directories(
   ${LLVM_MAIN_SRC_DIR}/lib/Target/AArch64
   ${LLVM_BINARY_DIR}/lib/Target/AArch64
diff --git a/bolt/lib/Target/X86/CMakeLists.txt b/bolt/lib/Target/X86/CMakeLists.txt
index 47344fe33111..7be9f80006c6 100644
--- a/bolt/lib/Target/X86/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/bolt/lib/Target/X86/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
 set(LLVM_LINK_COMPONENTS
-  BOLTCore
-  BOLTUtils
   MC
   MCDisassembler
   Support
@@ -15,6 +13,8 @@ add_llvm_library(LLVMBOLTTargetX86
   X86CommonTableGen
   )
 
+target_link_libraries(LLVMBOLTTargetX86 PRIVATE LLVMBOLTCore LLVMBOLTUtils)
+
 include_directories(
   ${LLVM_MAIN_SRC_DIR}/lib/Target/X86
   ${LLVM_BINARY_DIR}/lib/Target/X86
diff --git a/bolt/tools/llvm-bolt-fuzzer/CMakeLists.txt b/bolt/tools/llvm-bolt-fuzzer/CMakeLists.txt
index 14031ca41925..f84a841a163d 100644
--- a/bolt/tools/llvm-bolt-fuzzer/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/bolt/tools/llvm-bolt-fuzzer/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,8 +1,11 @@
 set(LLVM_LINK_COMPONENTS
-  BOLTRewrite
   ${LLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD}
   )
 
 add_llvm_fuzzer(llvm-bolt-fuzzer
   llvm-bolt-fuzzer.cpp
   )
+
+if (TARGET llvm-bolt-fuzzer)
+    target_link_libraries(llvm-bolt-fuzzer PRIVATE LLVMBOLTRewrite)
+endif()