diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 55f068b..7123174 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -133,15 +133,17 @@ if(CLANG)
 	endif()
 endif()
 
-if(BUILD_TESTS OR BUILD_EXAMPLES)
-	if(PKG_CONFIG_FOUND)
-		pkg_check_modules(LIBPMEMOBJ REQUIRED libpmemobj>=${LIBPMEMOBJ_REQUIRED_VERSION})
-		pkg_check_modules(LIBPMEM REQUIRED libpmem>=${LIBPMEM_REQUIRED_VERSION})
-	else()
-		find_package(LIBPMEMOBJ REQUIRED ${LIBPMEMOBJ_REQUIRED_VERSION})
-		find_package(LIBPMEM REQUIRED ${LIBPMEM_REQUIRED_VERSION})
-	endif()
+if (BUILD_BENCHMARKS OR BUILD_TESTS OR BUILD_EXAMPLES)
+if(PKG_CONFIG_FOUND)
+	pkg_check_modules(LIBPMEMOBJ REQUIRED libpmemobj>=${LIBPMEMOBJ_REQUIRED_VERSION})
+	pkg_check_modules(LIBPMEM REQUIRED libpmem>=${LIBPMEM_REQUIRED_VERSION})
+else()
+	find_package(LIBPMEMOBJ REQUIRED ${LIBPMEMOBJ_REQUIRED_VERSION})
+	find_package(LIBPMEM REQUIRED ${LIBPMEM_REQUIRED_VERSION})
+endif()
+endif()
 
+if(BUILD_TESTS OR BUILD_EXAMPLES)
 	if (LIBPMEMOBJ_VERSION AND LIBPMEMOBJ_VERSION MATCHES "[0-9]+[.][0-9]+.*")
 		string(REGEX REPLACE "\\+git.*" "" LIBPMEMOBJ_VERSION_SHORT ${LIBPMEMOBJ_VERSION})
 		string(REGEX REPLACE "-rc.*" "" LIBPMEMOBJ_VERSION_SHORT ${LIBPMEMOBJ_VERSION_SHORT})
diff --git a/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt b/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt
index a390731..e4764d3 100644
--- a/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/benchmarks/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ function(add_benchmark name)
 	prepend(srcs ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ${srcs})
 	add_executable(benchmark-${name} ${srcs})
 	target_link_libraries(benchmark-${name} ${LIBPMEMOBJ_LIBRARIES} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT})
+	install(
+	TARGETS benchmark-${name}
+	RUNTIME DESTINATION tools
+	LIBRARY DESTINATION lib
+	ARCHIVE DESTINATION lib
+	)
 endfunction()
 
 add_check_whitespace(benchmarks-cmake ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/CMakeLists.txt)