diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8c02948a7..17d5de3ad 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ function(createDefaultCacheConfig)
 	set(JUSTTESTS OFF CACHE BOOL "Build only for tests.")
 	set(SOLIDITY ON CACHE BOOL "Build the Solidity language components (required unless HEADLESS)")
 	set(SERPENT ${SERPENT_DEFAULT} CACHE BOOL "Build the Serpent language components (required unless HEADLESS)")
+	set(SDK ON CACHE BOOL "Build the SDK components")
 	set(USENPM OFF CACHE BOOL "Use npm to recompile ethereum.js if it was changed")
 	set(ETHASHCL OFF CACHE BOOL "Build in support for GPU mining via OpenCL")
 	set(PROFILING OFF CACHE BOOL "Build in support for profiling")
@@ -63,7 +64,6 @@ function(configureProject)
 	if (HEADLESS OR JUSTTESTS)
 		add_definitions(-DETH_HEADLESS)
 	endif()
-
 endfunction()
 
 set(CPPETHEREUM 1)
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ message("-- Build only headless components           HEADLESS         ${HEADLESS
 message("-- Build only tests                         JUSTTESTS        ${JUSTTESTS}")
 message("-- Build Solidity language components       SOLIDITY         ${SOLIDITY}")
 message("-- Build Serpent language components        SERPENT          ${SERPENT}")
+message("-- Build SDK components                     SDK              ${SDK}")
 message("-- Build OpenCL components                  ETHASHCL         ${ETHASHCL}")
 message("-- Build LLVM-based JIT EVM                 EVMJIT           ${EVMJIT}")
 message("-- Build with support for JSON-RPC          JSONRPC          ${JSONRPC}")
@@ -260,13 +261,15 @@ add_subdirectory(libdevcore)
 add_subdirectory(libevmcore)
 add_subdirectory(liblll)
 
-if (SERPENT)
-	add_subdirectory(libserpent)
-	add_subdirectory(sc)
-endif ()
+if (SDK)
+	if (SERPENT)
+		add_subdirectory(libserpent)
+		add_subdirectory(sc)
+	endif ()
 
-if (SOLIDITY)
-	add_subdirectory(libsolidity)
+	if (SOLIDITY)
+		add_subdirectory(libsolidity)
+	endif ()
 endif ()
 
 if (NOT JUSTTESTS)
@@ -324,7 +327,9 @@ if (NOT JUSTTESTS)
 #			add_subdirectory(third)	// reenable once not qtwebkit.
 		endif()
 
-		add_subdirectory(mix)
+		if (SDK)
+			add_subdirectory(mix)
+		endif ()
 
 	endif()
 
diff --git a/libweb3jsonrpc/CMakeLists.txt b/libweb3jsonrpc/CMakeLists.txt
index d3f4b70b6..7b47a3f47 100644
--- a/libweb3jsonrpc/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/libweb3jsonrpc/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ file(GLOB HEADERS "*.h")
 
 if (ETH_STATIC)
 	add_library(${EXECUTABLE} STATIC ${SRC_LIST} ${HEADERS})
-else()
+else ()
 	add_library(${EXECUTABLE} SHARED ${SRC_LIST} ${HEADERS})
-endif()
+endif ()
 
 target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE} ${LEVELDB_LIBRARIES})
 target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE} ${JSONCPP_LIBRARIES})
@@ -33,11 +33,13 @@ target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE} ${MHD_LIBRARIES})
 
 target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE} webthree)
 target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE} secp256k1)
-target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE} solidity)
 
-if (NOT ("${CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID}" STREQUAL "MSVC"))
+if (SOLIDITY)
+	target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE} solidity)
+endif ()
+if (SERPENT)
 	target_link_libraries(${EXECUTABLE} serpent)
-endif()
+endif ()
 
 if (ETH_JSON_RPC_STUB)
 	add_custom_target(jsonrpcstub) 
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ if (ETH_JSON_RPC_STUB)
 			-P "${ETH_SCRIPTS_DIR}/jsonrpcstub.cmake"
 	)
 	add_dependencies(${EXECUTABLE} jsonrpcstub)
-endif()
+endif ()
 
 install( TARGETS ${EXECUTABLE} RUNTIME DESTINATION bin ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib LIBRARY DESTINATION lib )
 install( FILES ${HEADERS} DESTINATION include/${EXECUTABLE} )