diff --git a/Applications/Utils/MeshGeoTools/CMakeLists.txt b/Applications/Utils/MeshGeoTools/CMakeLists.txt
index cf5266de887e0eea3891da7a8209ead9daa639e7..1da0d9878ace2eff705d5b9407538e9f1f36b9de 100644
--- a/Applications/Utils/MeshGeoTools/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Applications/Utils/MeshGeoTools/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES( ComputeSurfaceNodeIDsInPolygonalRegion
 	FileIO
 	GeoLib
 	MathLib
-	${Boost_LIBRARIES}
 	${OGS_VTK_REQUIRED_LIBS}
 )
 
diff --git a/BaseLib/CMakeLists.txt b/BaseLib/CMakeLists.txt
index d09dd09e182879600ffd86e3cfc531c5f5a04c7f..ca385c86379a9b2f5cc2daa81d61cb394e080f1d 100644
--- a/BaseLib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/BaseLib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ set_target_properties(BaseLib PROPERTIES LINKER_LANGUAGE CXX)
 
 target_link_libraries(BaseLib INTERFACE
 	logog
-	${Boost_LIBRARIES}
 )
 
 if(MSVC)
diff --git a/scripts/cmake/ExternalProjectBoost.cmake b/scripts/cmake/ExternalProjectBoost.cmake
index 7c0dfb2fd2c182772ef89286719afc57e373a1fa..b50276a1e4987f3029b319f46cbe7e87a7e1ee88 100644
--- a/scripts/cmake/ExternalProjectBoost.cmake
+++ b/scripts/cmake/ExternalProjectBoost.cmake
@@ -44,5 +44,3 @@ if(NOT Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS)
 	# On Visual Studio Boost libs get automatically linked
 	message(STATUS "Downloading Boost automatically.")
 endif()
-
-link_directories( ${source_dir}/stage/lib/ )