diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 2738cab631...5bb2b7d17a 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -48,93 +48,20 @@
 include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR})
 include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib_ccx)
 include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib_ccx/zvbi)
-include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty)
-include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/protobuf-c)
 include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/lib_hash)
-include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/libpng)
 
-# Check if the operating system is macOS (Darwin)
-if (${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
-  if(${CMAKE_HOST_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR} MATCHES "arm64")
-    # ARM Macs
-    include_directories("/opt/homebrew/include")
-    include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/libpng/arm)
-    aux_source_directory(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/libpng/arm SOURCEFILE)
-  else()
-    include_directories("/usr/local/include")
-  endif()
-endif()
-
-include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/zlib)
-include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/include)
 aux_source_directory(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/lib_hash/ SOURCEFILE)
-aux_source_directory(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/libpng/ SOURCEFILE)
-aux_source_directory(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/protobuf-c/ SOURCEFILE)
-aux_source_directory(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/zlib/ SOURCEFILE)
 aux_source_directory(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/lib_ccx/zvbi/ SOURCEFILE)
 
-set(UTF8PROC_SOURCE ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/utf8proc/utf8proc.c)
+set(UTF8PROC_SOURCE)
 
-set(FREETYPE_SOURCE
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/autofit/autofit.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbase.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbbox.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbdf.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftbitmap.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftcid.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftfntfmt.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftfstype.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftgasp.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftglyph.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftgxval.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftinit.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftlcdfil.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftmm.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftotval.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftpatent.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftpfr.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftstroke.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftsynth.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftsystem.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/fttype1.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/base/ftwinfnt.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/bdf/bdf.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/bzip2/ftbzip2.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/cache/ftcache.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/cff/cff.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/cid/type1cid.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/gzip/ftgzip.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/lzw/ftlzw.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/pcf/pcf.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/pfr/pfr.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/psaux/psaux.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/pshinter/pshinter.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/psnames/psnames.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/raster/raster.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/sfnt/sfnt.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/smooth/smooth.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/truetype/truetype.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/type1/type1.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/type42/type42.c
-        ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/freetype/winfonts/winfnt.c
-        )
+set(FREETYPE_SOURCE)
 #Windows specific libraries and linker flags
 if(WIN32)
     include_directories ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/win_spec_incld/")
     include_directories ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/win_iconv/")
     aux_source_directory ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/win_iconv/" SOURCEFILE)
     set (EXTRA_LIBS ${EXTRA_LIBS} ws2_32 winmm Bcrypt)
-else (WIN32)
-    # Adding some platform specific library path
-    if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)
-        link_directories (/usr/local/lib)
-    endif()
-
-    if(APPLE)
-        # Homebrew library paths
-        link_directories(/usr/local/lib)
-        link_directories(/opt/homebrew/lib)
-    endif()
 endif(WIN32)
 
 if(MSVC)
@@ -212,9 +139,6 @@
   pkg_check_modules (NANOMSG REQUIRED libnanomsg)
   set (EXTRA_LIBS ${EXTRA_LIBS} ${NANOMSG_STATIC_LIBRARIES})
 
-  include_directories ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/protobuf-c/")
-  aux_source_directory ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/thirdparty/protobuf-c/" SOURCEFILE)
-
   set (CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -DENABLE_SHARING")
 endif (PKG_CONFIG_FOUND AND WITH_SHARING)
 
diff --git a/src/lib_ccx/CMakeLists.txt b/src/lib_ccx/CMakeLists.txt
index 4f329bcaab...a334d20c4d 100644
--- a/src/lib_ccx/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/lib_ccx/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,9 +13,39 @@
 find_package(PkgConfig)
 pkg_check_modules (GPAC REQUIRED gpac)
 
+set (REQUIRES_PRIVATE "libpng libprotobuf-c")
+
+if (WITH_FFMPEG)
+  set (REQUIRES_PRIVATE "${REQUIRES_PRIVATE} libavutil")
+endif (WITH_FFMPEG)
+
+if (WITH_HARDSUBX)
+  set (REQUIRES_PRIVATE "${REQUIRES_PRIVATE} libavcodec libavformat libswscale tesseract lept")
+endif (WITH_HARDSUBX)
+
 set (EXTRA_INCLUDES ${EXTRA_INCLUDES} ${GPAC_INCLUDE_DIRS})
 set (EXTRA_LIBS ${EXTRA_LIBS} ${GPAC_LIBRARIES})
 
+pkg_check_modules (PROTOBUFC REQUIRED libprotobuf-c)
+set (EXTRA_LIBS ${EXTRA_LIBS} ${PROTOBUFC_LIBRARIES})
+set (EXTRA_INCLUDES ${EXTRA_INCLUDES} ${PROTOBUFC_INCLUDE_DIRS}/protobuf-c)
+
+pkg_check_modules (LIBPNG REQUIRED libpng)
+set (EXTRA_LIBS ${EXTRA_LIBS} ${LIBPNG_LIBRARIES})
+set (EXTRA_INCLUDES ${EXTRA_INCLUDES} ${LIBPNG_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+
+pkg_check_modules (ZLIB REQUIRED zlib)
+set (EXTRA_LIBS ${EXTRA_LIBS} ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES})
+set (EXTRA_INCLUDES ${EXTRA_INCLUDES} ${ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+
+pkg_check_modules (UTF8PROC REQUIRED libutf8proc)
+set (EXTRA_LIBS ${EXTRA_LIBS} ${UTF8PROC_LIBRARIES})
+set (EXTRA_INCLUDES ${EXTRA_INCLUDES} ${UTF8PROC_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+
+pkg_check_modules (FREETYPE REQUIRED freetype2)
+set (EXTRA_LIBS ${EXTRA_LIBS} ${FREETYPE_LIBRARIES})
+set (EXTRA_INCLUDES ${EXTRA_INCLUDES} ${FREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+
 if (WITH_FFMPEG)
     find_package(PkgConfig)
 
@@ -94,7 +124,7 @@
     set (CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -DDISABLE_RUST")
 endif (WITHOUT_RUST)
 
-file (GLOB HeaderFiles *.h)
+file (GLOB_RECURSE HeaderFiles *.h)
 file (WRITE ccx.pc "prefix=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}\n"
                   "includedir=\${prefix}/include\n"
                   "libdir=\${prefix}/lib\n\n"
@@ -102,8 +132,8 @@
                   "Description: Closed Caption Extraction library\n"
                   "Version: 0.75\n"
                   "Cflags: -I\${includedir}/\n"
-                  "Libs: -L\${libdir} -lccx -lpng\n"
-                  "Libs.private: -lpng\n"
+                  "Libs: -L\${libdir} -lccx\n"
+                  "Requires.private: ${REQUIRES_PRIVATE}\n"
                   )
 
 install (TARGETS ccx DESTINATION lib)
diff --git a/src/lib_ccx/params.c b/src/lib_ccx/params.c
index eb1562e50c...984070a285 100644
--- a/src/lib_ccx/params.c
+++ b/src/lib_ccx/params.c
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #include "../lib_hash/sha2.h"
 #include <string.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
-#include <utf8proc/utf8proc.h>
+#include <utf8proc.h>
 
 #ifdef ENABLE_OCR
 #include <tesseract/capi.h>