diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@
 	${NETWORK_SOURCES}
 )
 
-target_link_libraries(common util secp256k1 script)
+target_link_libraries(common bitcoinconsensus util secp256k1 script)
 
 # script library
 add_library(script
diff --git a/src/seeder/CMakeLists.txt b/src/seeder/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/src/seeder/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/seeder/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,20 @@
-# Copyright (c) 2017-2019 The Bitcoin developers
+# Copyright (c) 2017-2020 The Bitcoin developers
 # Distributed under the MIT software license, see the accompanying
 # file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
 
 project(bitcoin-seeder)
 
-add_library(seeder bitcoin.cpp db.cpp dns.cpp)
-target_link_libraries(seeder common bitcoinconsensus)
+add_library(seeder-base
+	bitcoin.cpp
+	db.cpp
+	dns.cpp
+)
+target_link_libraries(seeder-base common)
 
-add_executable(bitcoin-seeder main.cpp)
-target_link_libraries(bitcoin-seeder common bitcoinconsensus seeder)
+add_executable(bitcoin-seeder
+	main.cpp
+)
+target_link_libraries(bitcoin-seeder seeder-base)
 
 include(BinaryTest)
 add_to_symbols_check(bitcoin-seeder)
diff --git a/src/seeder/test/CMakeLists.txt b/src/seeder/test/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/src/seeder/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/seeder/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 )
 
 target_link_libraries(test-seeder
-	seeder
-	# The seeder has some bizare linking problems makign util necessary here.
-	util
+	seeder-base
 	testutil
 )