diff --git a/core/CMakeLists.txt b/core/CMakeLists.txt
index 3b7afda..a152fa9 100644
--- a/core/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/core/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ set(LIBJSONNET_SOURCE
     string_utils.cpp
     vm.cpp)
 
+if (BUILD_SHARED_BINARIES)
 add_library(libjsonnet ${LIBJSONNET_HEADERS} ${LIBJSONNET_SOURCE})
 add_dependencies(libjsonnet md5 stdlib)
 target_link_libraries(libjsonnet md5 nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json ryml)
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ install(TARGETS libjsonnet
 	PUBLIC_HEADER DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}")
 target_include_directories(libjsonnet INTERFACE
   $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../include>)
+endif()
 
 if (BUILD_STATIC_LIBS)
     # Static library for jsonnet command-line tool.
@@ -106,3 +108,5 @@ if (BUILD_TESTS)
     add_test(jsonnet_test_snippet
         ${GLOBAL_OUTPUT_PATH}/jsonnet -e ${TEST_SNIPPET})
 endif()
+
+install(FILES ${LIB_HEADER} DESTINATION include)
diff --git a/cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index eb7686c..326125c 100644
--- a/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,9 +8,9 @@ set(LIBJSONNETPP_SOURCE
     libjsonnet++.cpp
 )
 
+if (BUILD_SHARED_BINARIES)
 add_library(libjsonnet++ SHARED ${LIBJSONNETPP_HEADERS} ${LIBJSONNETPP_SOURCE})
-add_dependencies(libjsonnet++ jsonnet)
-# target_link_libraries(libjsonnet libjsonnet)
+target_link_libraries(libjsonnet libjsonnet)
 
 # CMake prepends CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX to shared libraries, so without
 # this step the output would be |liblibjsonnet|.
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ install(TARGETS libjsonnet++
 	PUBLIC_HEADER DESTINATION "${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}")
 target_include_directories(libjsonnet++ INTERFACE
   $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../include>)
+endif()
 
 if (BUILD_STATIC_LIBS)
     # Static library for jsonnet command-line tool.
@@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ else()
     add_library(libjsonnet++_for_binaries ALIAS libjsonnet++_static)
 endif()
 
+install(FILES ${LIBJSONNETPP_HEADERS} DESTINATION include)
 # Tests
 function(add_test_executablepp test_name)
     if (EXISTS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/${test_name}.cpp)