diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 5a843b9..7337a22 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -58,11 +58,6 @@ if(NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE)
       FORCE)
 endif()
 
-# Check out Git submodules.
-if (EXISTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/.gitmodules")
-  execute_process (COMMAND git submodule update --init --recursive
-                   WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR})
-endif()
 
 # Add third_party libraries, disabling as much as we can of their builds.
 
@@ -157,7 +152,6 @@ endif()
 
 include_directories(.)
 include_directories(src)
-include_directories(third_party/abseil-cpp)
 include_directories("${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/src")
 
 # Baseline build flags.
@@ -244,28 +238,6 @@ add_library(libbloaty STATIC
     src/util.cc
     src/util.h
     src/webassembly.cc
-    # Until Abseil has a proper CMake build system
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/base/internal/raw_logging.cc # Grrrr...
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/base/internal/throw_delegate.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/debugging/internal/demangle.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/numeric/int128.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/ascii.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/charconv.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/escaping.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/internal/charconv_bigint.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/internal/charconv_parse.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/internal/escaping.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/internal/memutil.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/internal/utf8.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/match.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/numbers.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/str_cat.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/string_view.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/str_split.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/strings/substitute.cc
-    third_party/abseil-cpp/absl/types/bad_optional_access.cc
-    # One source file, no special build system needed.
-    third_party/demumble/third_party/libcxxabi/cxa_demangle.cpp
     )
 set_property(TARGET libbloaty PROPERTY FOLDER "bloaty")