diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e74bd8a92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.4)
+project (eressea-core)
+
+enable_testing()
+
+set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/../../cmake/Modules/")
+
+add_subdirectory (../../dependencies "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/dependencies")
+add_subdirectory (util)
diff --git a/src/util/CMakeLists.txt b/src/util/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8d2a38123
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/util/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 2.4)
+project (util)
+
+find_package (Lua51 REQUIRED)
+find_package (LibXml2 REQUIRED)
+#find_package (CuTest REQUIRED HINTS ${DEPENDENCIES_DIR})
+#find_package (QuickList REQUIRED)
+#find_package (CritBit REQUIRED)
+
+include_directories (${LUA_INCLUDE_DIR} ${LIBXML2_INCLUDE_DIR})
+include_directories (..
+  ${CRITBIT_INCLUDE_DIR}
+  ${QUICKLIST_INCLUDE_DIR}
+  ${CUTEST_INCLUDE_DIR}
+  )
+
+add_library (util attrib.c
+  base36.c
+  base36_test.c
+  bsdstring.c
+  bsdstring_test.c
+  console.c
+  crmessage.c
+  dice.c
+  eventbus.c
+  event.c
+  filereader.c
+  functions.c
+  functions_test.c
+  goodies.c
+  language.c
+  listbox.c
+  lists.c
+  log.c
+  message.c
+  nrmessage.c
+  os.c
+  parser.c
+  rand.c
+  resolve.c
+  sql.c
+  strings.c
+  translation.c
+  umlaut.c
+  umlaut_test.c
+  unicode.c
+  xml.c
+)
diff --git a/src/util/bsdstring.h b/src/util/bsdstring.h
index b917baafa..91b89465d 100644
--- a/src/util/bsdstring.h
+++ b/src/util/bsdstring.h
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #ifndef UTIL_BSDSTRING_H
 #define UTIL_BSDSTRING_H
 
+#include <stddef.h>
 extern int wrptr(char **ptr, size_t * size, int bytes);
 
 #ifndef HAVE_STRLCPY