diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d8a9a1d65..d48fbe46d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -72,10 +72,11 @@ if(ANDROID)
     )
 else()
     find_package(Qt5 ${QT_MIN_VERSION} COMPONENTS Widgets)
-    find_package(KF5 ${KF5_MIN_VERSION} REQUIRED COMPONENTS QQC2DesktopStyle ConfigWidgets KIO WindowSystem Sonnet SyntaxHighlighting)
+    find_package(KF5 ${KF5_MIN_VERSION} REQUIRED COMPONENTS QQC2DesktopStyle ConfigWidgets KIO WindowSystem Sonnet)
     set_package_properties(KF5QQC2DesktopStyle PROPERTIES
         TYPE RUNTIME
     )
+    ecm_find_qmlmodule(org.kde.syntaxhighlighting 1.0)
 endif()
 
 if (NOT ANDROID AND NOT WIN32 AND NOT APPLE)
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 8774c8b26..b88b757e5 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ if(NOT ANDROID)
 endif()
 
 target_include_directories(neochat PRIVATE ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})
-target_link_libraries(neochat PRIVATE Qt::Quick Qt::Qml Qt::Gui Qt::Network Qt::QuickControls2 KF5::I18n KF5::Kirigami2 KF5::Notifications KF5::ConfigCore KF5::ConfigGui KF5::CoreAddons KF5::SyntaxHighlighting Quotient cmark::cmark ${QTKEYCHAIN_LIBRARIES})
+target_link_libraries(neochat PRIVATE Qt::Quick Qt::Qml Qt::Gui Qt::Network Qt::QuickControls2 KF5::I18n KF5::Kirigami2 KF5::Notifications KF5::ConfigCore KF5::ConfigGui KF5::CoreAddons Quotient cmark::cmark ${QTKEYCHAIN_LIBRARIES})
 kconfig_add_kcfg_files(neochat GENERATE_MOC neochatconfig.kcfgc)
 
 if(NEOCHAT_FLATPAK)