diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 9318bda2..d1dc3c42 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ option(SIMDJSON_EXCEPTIONS "Enable simdjson's exception-throwing interface" ON)
 
 set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/tools/cmake")
 
-find_package(CTargets)
 find_package(Options)
 
 #
@@ -63,13 +62,15 @@ set (TEST_DATA_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/jsonchecker/")
 set (BENCHMARK_DATA_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/jsonexamples/")
 add_definitions(-DSIMDJSON_TEST_DATA_DIR="${TEST_DATA_DIR}")
 add_definitions(-DSIMDJSON_BENCHMARK_DATA_DIR="${TEST_DATA_DIR}")
+add_definitions(-DJSON_TEST_PATH="${BENCHMARK_DATA_DIR}/twitter.json")
+add_definitions(-DSIMDJSON_AMAZON_CELLPHONES_NDJSON_PATH="${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/jsonexamples/amazon_cellphones.ndjson")
+
 enable_testing()
 
 add_subdirectory(tools)
 add_subdirectory(tests)
 add_subdirectory(benchmark)
 
-
 if (SIMDJSON_GOOGLE_BENCHMARKS)
   if(NOT EXISTS dependencies/benchmark/CMakeLists.txt)
     # message(STATUS "Unable to find dependencies/benchmark/CMakeLists.txt")
diff --git a/benchmark/CMakeLists.txt b/benchmark/CMakeLists.txt
index ce56248b..a9be1807 100644
--- a/benchmark/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/benchmark/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,16 +1,14 @@
 include_directories( . linux )
-add_cpp_benchmark(parse)
-add_cpp_benchmark(statisticalmodel)
-add_cpp_benchmark(parse_stream)
-add_cpp_benchmark(get_corpus_benchmark)
+link_libraries(simdjson)
+add_executable(parse parse.cpp)
+add_executable(statisticalmodel statisticalmodel.cpp)
+add_executable(parse_stream parse_stream.cpp)
+add_executable(get_corpus_benchmark get_corpus_benchmark.cpp)
 add_executable(perfdiff perfdiff.cpp)
 
 # Google Benchmarks
 if (SIMDJSON_GOOGLE_BENCHMARKS)
-  add_cpp_benchmark(bench_parse_call)
-  target_link_libraries(bench_parse_call benchmark::benchmark)
-
-  add_cpp_benchmark(bench_dom_api)
-  target_link_libraries(bench_dom_api benchmark::benchmark)
-  target_compile_definitions(bench_dom_api PRIVATE JSON_TEST_PATH="${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/jsonexamples/twitter.json")
+  link_libraries(benchmark::benchmark)
+  add_executable(bench_parse_call bench_parse_call.cpp)
+  add_executable(bench_dom_api bench_dom_api.cpp)
 endif()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/benchmark/bench_dom_api.cpp b/benchmark/bench_dom_api.cpp
index f9494fc5..775d1886 100644
--- a/benchmark/bench_dom_api.cpp
+++ b/benchmark/bench_dom_api.cpp
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ using namespace simdjson;
 using namespace benchmark;
 using namespace std;
 
-#ifndef JSON_TEST_PATH
-#define JSON_TEST_PATH "jsonexamples/twitter.json"
+#ifndef SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH
+#define SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH "jsonexamples/twitter.json"
 #endif
 
 const padded_string EMPTY_ARRAY("[]", 2);
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const padded_string EMPTY_ARRAY("[]", 2);
 static void twitter_count(State& state) {
   // Prints the number of results in twitter.json
   dom::parser parser;
-  dom::element doc = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+  dom::element doc = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
   for (auto _ : state) {
     uint64_t result_count = doc["search_metadata"]["count"];
     if (result_count != 100) { return; }
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ SIMDJSON_PUSH_DISABLE_WARNINGS
 SIMDJSON_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_WARNING
 static void iterator_twitter_count(State& state) {
   // Prints the number of results in twitter.json
-  padded_string json = padded_string::load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+  padded_string json = padded_string::load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
   ParsedJson pj = build_parsed_json(json);
   for (auto _ : state) {
     ParsedJson::Iterator iter(pj);
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ SIMDJSON_POP_DISABLE_WARNINGS
 static void twitter_default_profile(State& state) {
   // Count unique users with a default profile.
   dom::parser parser;
-  dom::element doc = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+  dom::element doc = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
   for (auto _ : state) {
     set<string_view> default_users;
     for (dom::object tweet : doc["statuses"].get<dom::array>()) {
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ BENCHMARK(twitter_default_profile);
 static void twitter_image_sizes(State& state) {
   // Count unique image sizes
   dom::parser parser;
-  dom::element doc = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+  dom::element doc = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
   for (auto _ : state) {
     set<tuple<uint64_t, uint64_t>> image_sizes;
     for (dom::object tweet : doc["statuses"].get<dom::array>()) {
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ BENCHMARK(twitter_image_sizes);
 static void error_code_twitter_count(State& state) noexcept {
   // Prints the number of results in twitter.json
   dom::parser parser;
-  dom::element doc = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+  dom::element doc = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
   for (auto _ : state) {
     auto [value, error] = doc["search_metadata"]["count"].get<uint64_t>();
     if (error) { return; }
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ BENCHMARK(error_code_twitter_count);
 static void error_code_twitter_default_profile(State& state) noexcept {
   // Count unique users with a default profile.
   dom::parser parser;
-  dom::element doc = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+  dom::element doc = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
   for (auto _ : state) {
     set<string_view> default_users;
 
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ SIMDJSON_PUSH_DISABLE_WARNINGS
 SIMDJSON_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_WARNING
 static void iterator_twitter_default_profile(State& state) {
   // Count unique users with a default profile.
-  padded_string json = padded_string::load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+  padded_string json = padded_string::load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
   ParsedJson pj = build_parsed_json(json);
   for (auto _ : state) {
     set<string_view> default_users;
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ BENCHMARK(iterator_twitter_default_profile);
 static void error_code_twitter_image_sizes(State& state) noexcept {
   // Count unique image sizes
   dom::parser parser;
-  dom::element doc = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+  dom::element doc = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
   for (auto _ : state) {
     set<tuple<uint64_t, uint64_t>> image_sizes;
     auto [statuses, error] = doc["statuses"].get<dom::array>();
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ SIMDJSON_PUSH_DISABLE_WARNINGS
 SIMDJSON_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_WARNING
 static void iterator_twitter_image_sizes(State& state) {
   // Count unique image sizes
-  padded_string json = padded_string::load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+  padded_string json = padded_string::load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
   ParsedJson pj = build_parsed_json(json);
   for (auto _ : state) {
     set<tuple<uint64_t, uint64_t>> image_sizes;
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ BENCHMARK(iterator_twitter_image_sizes);
 
 static void print_json(State& state) noexcept {
   // Prints the number of results in twitter.json
-  padded_string json = get_corpus(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+  padded_string json = get_corpus(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
   dom::parser parser;
   if (int error = json_parse(json, parser); error != SUCCESS) { cerr << error_message(error) << endl; return; }
   for (auto _ : state) {
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index b5352ed8..14653628 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,33 +1,21 @@
-if(MSVC)
-  target_include_directories(simdjson
-    INTERFACE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/windows>
-  )
-endif()
+# Helper so we don't have to repeat ourselves so much
+function(add_cpp_test TEST_NAME)
+  add_executable(${TEST_NAME} ${TEST_NAME}.cpp)
+  add_test(${TEST_NAME} ${TEST_NAME})
+endfunction(add_cpp_test)
+
+
+link_libraries(simdjson)
 
 add_cpp_test(basictests)
 add_cpp_test(errortests)
-
-## Next bit should not be needed!
-#if(CMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION)
-# next line is a workaround for an odr-violation in basictests regarding the globals 0x432a40 and 0x52045c under clang
-#set_tests_properties(basictests PROPERTIES
-#    ENVIRONMENT ASAN_OPTIONS="detect_odr_violation=0")
-#endif()
-
 add_cpp_test(jsoncheck)
 add_cpp_test(parse_many_test)
 add_cpp_test(pointercheck)
 add_cpp_test(integer_tests)
 
-target_compile_definitions(basictests PRIVATE JSON_TEST_PATH="${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/jsonexamples/twitter.json" NDJSON_TEST_PATH="${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/jsonexamples/amazon_cellphones.ndjson")
-target_compile_definitions(errortests PRIVATE JSON_TEST_PATH="${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/jsonexamples/twitter.json")
-
-## This causes problems
-# add_executable(singleheader ./singleheadertest.cpp ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/singleheader/simdjson.cpp)
-# target_link_libraries(singleheader simdjson)
-# add_test(singleheader singleheader)
-
 if(MSVC)
+  include_directories($<BUILD_INTERFACE:${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/windows>)
   add_custom_command(TARGET basictests POST_BUILD        # Adds a post-build event
     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo "$<TARGET_FILE:simdjson>"
     COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E echo "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:basictests>"
@@ -36,3 +24,14 @@ if(MSVC)
         "$<TARGET_FILE_DIR:basictests>")                 # <--this is out-file path
 endif()
 
+## Next bit should not be needed!
+#if(CMAKE_INTERPROCEDURAL_OPTIMIZATION)
+# next line is a workaround for an odr-violation in basictests regarding the globals 0x432a40 and 0x52045c under clang
+#set_tests_properties(basictests PROPERTIES
+#    ENVIRONMENT ASAN_OPTIONS="detect_odr_violation=0")
+#endif()
+
+## This causes problems
+# add_executable(singleheader ./singleheadertest.cpp ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/singleheader/simdjson.cpp)
+# target_link_libraries(singleheader simdjson)
+# add_test(singleheader singleheader)
diff --git a/tests/basictests.cpp b/tests/basictests.cpp
index a8f21893..f2a68c0f 100644
--- a/tests/basictests.cpp
+++ b/tests/basictests.cpp
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
 
 #include "simdjson.h"
 
-#ifndef JSON_TEST_PATH
-#define JSON_TEST_PATH "jsonexamples/twitter.json"
+#ifndef SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH
+#define SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH "jsonexamples/twitter.json"
 #endif
-#ifndef NDJSON_TEST_PATH
-#define NDJSON_TEST_PATH "jsonexamples/amazon_cellphones.ndjson"
+#ifndef SIMDJSON_AMAZON_CELLPHONES_NDJSON_PATH
+#define SIMDJSON_AMAZON_CELLPHONES_NDJSON_PATH "jsonexamples/amazon_cellphones.ndjson"
 #endif
 
 #define ASSERT_EQUAL(ACTUAL, EXPECTED) if ((ACTUAL) != (EXPECTED)) { std::cerr << "Expected " << #ACTUAL << " to be " << (EXPECTED) << ", got " << (ACTUAL) << " instead!" << std::endl; return false; }
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ namespace parse_api_tests {
   bool parser_load() {
     std::cout << "Running " << __func__ << std::endl;
     dom::parser parser;
-    auto [doc, error] = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+    auto [doc, error] = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
     if (error) { cerr << error << endl; return false; }
     if (!doc.is<dom::object>()) { cerr << "Document did not parse as an object" << endl; return false; }
     return true;
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ namespace parse_api_tests {
     std::cout << "Running " << __func__ << std::endl;
     dom::parser parser;
     int count = 0;
-    for (auto [doc, error] : parser.load_many(NDJSON_TEST_PATH)) {
+    for (auto [doc, error] : parser.load_many(SIMDJSON_AMAZON_CELLPHONES_NDJSON_PATH)) {
       if (error) { cerr << error << endl; return false; }
       if (!doc.is<dom::array>()) { cerr << "Document did not parse as an array" << endl; return false; }
       count++;
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ namespace parse_api_tests {
   bool parser_load_exception() {
     std::cout << "Running " << __func__ << std::endl;
     dom::parser parser;
-    const element doc = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+    const element doc = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
     if (!doc.is<dom::object>()) { cerr << "Document did not parse as an object" << endl; return false; }
     return true;
   }
@@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ namespace parse_api_tests {
     std::cout << "Running " << __func__ << std::endl;
     dom::parser parser;
     int count = 0;
-    for (const element doc : parser.load_many(NDJSON_TEST_PATH)) {
+    for (const element doc : parser.load_many(SIMDJSON_AMAZON_CELLPHONES_NDJSON_PATH)) {
       if (!doc.is<dom::array>()) { cerr << "Document did not parse as an array" << endl; return false; }
       count++;
     }
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ namespace dom_api_tests {
     std::cout << "Running " << __func__ << std::endl;
     // Prints the number of results in twitter.json
     dom::parser parser;
-    auto [result_count, error] = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH)["search_metadata"]["count"].get<uint64_t>();
+    auto [result_count, error] = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH)["search_metadata"]["count"].get<uint64_t>();
     if (error) { cerr << "Error: " << error << endl; return false; }
     if (result_count != 100) { cerr << "Expected twitter.json[metadata_count][count] = 100, got " << result_count << endl; return false; }
     return true;
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ namespace dom_api_tests {
     // Print users with a default profile.
     set<string_view> default_users;
     dom::parser parser;
-    auto [tweets, error] = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH)["statuses"].get<dom::array>();
+    auto [tweets, error] = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH)["statuses"].get<dom::array>();
     if (error) { cerr << "Error: " << error << endl; return false; }
     for (auto tweet : tweets) {
       object user;
@@ -905,7 +905,7 @@ namespace dom_api_tests {
     // Print image names and sizes
     set<pair<uint64_t, uint64_t>> image_sizes;
     dom::parser parser;
-    auto [tweets, error] = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH)["statuses"].get<dom::array>();
+    auto [tweets, error] = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH)["statuses"].get<dom::array>();
     if (error) { cerr << "Error: " << error << endl; return false; }
     for (auto tweet : tweets) {
       auto [media, not_found] = tweet["entities"]["media"].get<dom::array>();
@@ -1043,7 +1043,7 @@ namespace dom_api_tests {
     std::cout << "Running " << __func__ << std::endl;
     // Prints the number of results in twitter.json
     dom::parser parser;
-    element doc = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+    element doc = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
     uint64_t result_count = doc["search_metadata"]["count"];
     if (result_count != 100) { cerr << "Expected twitter.json[metadata_count][count] = 100, got " << result_count << endl; return false; }
     return true;
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ namespace dom_api_tests {
     // Print users with a default profile.
     set<string_view> default_users;
     dom::parser parser;
-    element doc = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+    element doc = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
     for (object tweet : doc["statuses"].get<dom::array>()) {
       object user = tweet["user"];
       if (user["default_profile"]) {
@@ -1070,7 +1070,7 @@ namespace dom_api_tests {
     // Print image names and sizes
     set<pair<uint64_t, uint64_t>> image_sizes;
     dom::parser parser;
-    element doc = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+    element doc = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
     for (object tweet : doc["statuses"].get<dom::array>()) {
       auto [media, not_found] = tweet["entities"]["media"];
       if (!not_found) {
diff --git a/tests/errortests.cpp b/tests/errortests.cpp
index 74788b2b..48da3347 100644
--- a/tests/errortests.cpp
+++ b/tests/errortests.cpp
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 using namespace simdjson;
 using namespace std;
 
-#ifndef JSON_TEST_PATH
-#define JSON_TEST_PATH "jsonexamples/twitter.json"
+#ifndef SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH
+#define SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH "jsonexamples/twitter.json"
 #endif
 
 #define TEST_START() { cout << "Running " << __func__ << " ..." << endl; }
@@ -27,14 +27,14 @@ namespace parser_load {
   bool parser_load_capacity() {
     TEST_START();
     dom::parser parser(1); // 1 byte max capacity
-    auto [doc, error] = parser.load(JSON_TEST_PATH);
+    auto [doc, error] = parser.load(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH);
     ASSERT_ERROR(error, CAPACITY);
     TEST_SUCCEED();
   }
   bool parser_load_many_capacity() {
     TEST_START();
     dom::parser parser(1); // 1 byte max capacity
-    for (auto [doc, error] : parser.load_many(JSON_TEST_PATH)) {
+    for (auto [doc, error] : parser.load_many(SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH)) {
       ASSERT_ERROR(error, CAPACITY);
       TEST_SUCCEED();
     }
diff --git a/tests/singleheadertest.cpp b/tests/singleheadertest.cpp
index 07ee12fc..baf2b520 100644
--- a/tests/singleheadertest.cpp
+++ b/tests/singleheadertest.cpp
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 using namespace simdjson;
 
 int main() {
-  const char *filename = JSON_TEST_PATH;
+  const char *filename = SIMDJSON_TWITTER_JSON_PATH;
   padded_string p = get_corpus(filename);
   dom::parser parser;
   auto [doc, error] = parser.parse(p);
diff --git a/tools/CMakeLists.txt b/tools/CMakeLists.txt
index f6eb247e..942a9883 100644
--- a/tools/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tools/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
-add_cpp_tool(json2json)
-add_cpp_tool(jsonstats)
-add_cpp_tool(minify)
+link_libraries(simdjson)
+add_executable(json2json json2json.cpp)
+add_executable(jsonstats jsonstats.cpp)
+add_executable(minify minify.cpp)
diff --git a/tools/cmake/FindCTargets.cmake b/tools/cmake/FindCTargets.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 3d7f569e..00000000
--- a/tools/cmake/FindCTargets.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-function(add_cpp_test TEST_NAME)
-  add_executable(${TEST_NAME} ${TEST_NAME}.cpp)
-  target_link_libraries(${TEST_NAME} ${SIMDJSON_LIB_NAME})
-  add_test(${TEST_NAME} ${TEST_NAME})
-endfunction(add_cpp_test)
-
-function(add_cpp_benchmark BENCH_NAME)
-  add_executable(${BENCH_NAME} ${BENCH_NAME}.cpp)
-  target_link_libraries(${BENCH_NAME} ${SIMDJSON_LIB_NAME})
-endfunction(add_cpp_benchmark)
-
-function(add_cpp_tool TOOL_NAME)
-  add_executable(${TOOL_NAME} ${TOOL_NAME}.cpp)
-  target_link_libraries(${TOOL_NAME} ${SIMDJSON_LIB_NAME})
-endfunction(add_cpp_tool)