diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 19d637042ca2d547001748b3f8545301b2deac2b..40ee33bf56fa1e7506ce6ff6ee82a25bfbbe8972 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@ option(ENABLE_OSMESA "Use OSMesa for offscreen rendering" OFF)
 option(ENABLE_PARSER "Build the GEO file parser" ON)
 option(ENABLE_POST "Build the post-processing module" ON)
 option(ENABLE_QT "Build QT GUI" OFF)
-option(ENABLE_SOLVER "Build the finite element solver code" OFF)
 option(ENABLE_TAUCS "Enable Taucs linear algebra solver" ON)
 option(ENABLE_TETGEN "Enable Tetgen mesh generator" ON)
 option(ENABLE_TETGEN_NEW "Enable experimental version of Tetgen" OFF)