diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 5d97200ba3..c9bde3e19c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1211,6 +1211,10 @@ include(../Install)
 
 # By running the URL tests first, time can be saved when running the ctests in
 # parallel since the URL tests take a long time to run (e.g. 10 minutes).
+
+# Needed, because of perl scripts in checkurls autotests and batchtests
+find_package(Perl REQUIRED)
+
 if(LYX_ENABLE_URLTESTS)
 	add_subdirectory(development/checkurls "${TOP_BINARY_DIR}/checkurls")
 endif()
diff --git a/development/checkurls/CMakeLists.txt b/development/checkurls/CMakeLists.txt
index 3125c86550..02fdc95757 100644
--- a/development/checkurls/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/development/checkurls/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -4,10 +4,7 @@
 # Copyright (c) 2013 Kornel Benko <kornel@lyx.org>
 #           (c) 2013 Scott Kostyshak <skotysh@lyx.org>
 #
-# Needed, because of perl scripts here
-find_package(Perl REQUIRED)
 
-# create file the lyx-files-list
 set(TOP_SEARCH_PATH "${TOP_SRC_DIR}")
 set(LYXFILES_FILE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/filesToScan")
 file(WRITE "${LYXFILES_FILE}")