diff --git a/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32.ctest b/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32.ctest
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index e20cef40785576f0dc6ec8470d76d24de274b346..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32.ctest
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@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-# Gmsh - Copyright (C) 1997-2017 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
-#
-# See the LICENSE.txt file for license information. Please report all
-# bugs and problems to the public mailing list <gmsh@onelab.info>.
-
-set(CTEST_CMAKE_COMMAND "/usr/bin/cmake")
-set(CTEST_CMAKE_GENERATOR "Unix Makefiles")
-
-set(WEB_BIN "geuzaine@onelab.info:/home/www/gmsh.info/bin/Linux")
-
-set(WITH_TEST TRUE)      # run the tests?
-set(WITH_COVERAGE FALSE) # check code coverage?
-set(WITH_MEMCHECK FALSE) # check memory with valgrind?
-
-#################################################################################
-set(CTEST_BUILD_NAME "Linux32")
-set(CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY "$ENV{HOME}/src/gmsh/bin")
-set(OPT "-DGMSH_EXTRA_VERSION=${EXTRA_VERSION}")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:path=/usr/local/opencascade;/usr/local")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DENABLE_NATIVE_FILE_CHOOSER:bool=FALSE")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DPETSC_ARCH=linux_complex_mumps_seq")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DPETSC_DIR=$ENV{HOME}/src/petsc-3.5.2")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DSLEPC_DIR=$ENV{HOME}/src/slepc-3.5.2")
-set(CTEST_BUILD_OPTIONS ${OPT})
-include(gmsh.ctest)
-upload_package(${WEB_BIN} Linux 32 .tar.gz .tgz)
diff --git a/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32_nightly.cron b/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32_nightly.cron
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index 02d78082d7896bb8ea7043bc1b46c461b38b83b0..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32_nightly.cron
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#
-# this will launch a new build every night at 1h01
-#
-1 1 * * * cd ${HOME}/src/gmsh/utils/nightly && /usr/bin/ctest -S gmsh_linux32_nightly.ctest -VV > ${HOME}/src/gmsh/nightly.log 2>&1
diff --git a/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32_nightly.ctest b/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32_nightly.ctest
deleted file mode 100644
index f5e62bfcc6a1175e8c740147e099703737d05751..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32_nightly.ctest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Gmsh - Copyright (C) 1997-2017 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
-#
-# See the LICENSE.txt file for license information. Please report all
-# bugs and problems to the public mailing list <gmsh@onelab.info>.
-
-set(CTEST_NIGHTLY_START_TIME "22:00:00 UTC")
-set(CDASH_MODEL "Nightly")
-set(EXTRA_VERSION "-git")
-include(gmsh_linux32.ctest)
diff --git a/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32_test.ctest b/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32_test.ctest
deleted file mode 100644
index bf6963f1f01c7441ba51325686d4d193636e26dc..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/utils/nightly/gmsh_linux32_test.ctest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Gmsh - Copyright (C) 1997-2017 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
-#
-# See the LICENSE.txt file for license information. Please report all
-# bugs and problems to the public mailing list <gmsh@onelab.info>.
-
-set(EXTRA_VERSION "-git")
-include(gmsh_linux32.ctest)
diff --git a/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32.ctest b/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32.ctest
deleted file mode 100644
index fd09bd315ea549bc9a9d4799ec6db2ddb81b969e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32.ctest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-# Gmsh - Copyright (C) 1997-2017 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
-#
-# See the LICENSE.txt file for license information. Please report all
-# bugs and problems to the public mailing list <gmsh@onelab.info>.
-
-set(CTEST_CMAKE_COMMAND "cmake")
-set(CTEST_CMAKE_GENERATOR "Unix Makefiles")
-
-set(WEB_BIN "geuzaine@onelab.info:/home/www/gmsh.info/bin/Windows")
-
-set(WITH_TEST FALSE)     # run the tests? - disable this for now: slow on virtual machine
-set(WITH_COVERAGE FALSE) # check code coverage?
-set(WITH_MEMCHECK FALSE) # check memory with valgrind?
-
-# Before you can configure Gmsh on cygwin with the mingw compilers, you need to
-# fix cmake 2.8.9's FindOpenGL.cmake module, by replacing if(WIN32 OR CYGWIN) by
-# if(WIN32) on line 49
-#
-# With mingw gcc 4.7 (we currently use gcc 4.5 on ace36), you should 
-#  1) add -DCMAKE_RC_COMPILER=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-windres.exe
-#  2) remove -mno-cygwin from FLTK's configure script: gcc 4.7 does not accept
-#     it anymore 
-
-#################################################################################
-set(CTEST_BUILD_NAME "Win32")
-set(CTEST_BINARY_DIRECTORY "$ENV{HOME}/src/gmsh/bin")
-set(OPT "-DGMSH_EXTRA_VERSION=${EXTRA_VERSION}")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH:path=/usr/local/opencascade;/usr/local;/usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-g++.exe")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DCMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER=/usr/bin/i686-w64-mingw32-gfortran.exe")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DPETSC_ARCH=win32_complex_mumps_seq")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DPETSC_DIR=$ENV{HOME}/src/petsc-3.5.2")
-set(OPT "${OPT} -DSLEPC_DIR=$ENV{HOME}/src/slepc-3.5.2")
-set(CTEST_BUILD_OPTIONS ${OPT})
-include(gmsh.ctest)
-upload_package(${WEB_BIN} Windows 32 .zip .zip)
diff --git a/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32_nightly.bat b/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32_nightly.bat
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index fffe6b9b13d7b4ba2e98c1760b22e7a1450baed3..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32_nightly.bat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-@echo off
-
-C:
-chdir C:\cygwin\bin
-
-bash --login -c "cd ${HOME}/src/gmsh/utils/nightly && ctest -S gmsh_win32_nightly.ctest -VV > ${HOME}/src/gmsh/nightly.log 2>&1"
diff --git a/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32_nightly.ctest b/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32_nightly.ctest
deleted file mode 100644
index e070d16aa5604b5a204d3c81ce5414d3095d3264..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32_nightly.ctest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-# Gmsh - Copyright (C) 1997-2017 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
-#
-# See the LICENSE.txt file for license information. Please report all
-# bugs and problems to the public mailing list <gmsh@onelab.info>.
-
-set(CTEST_NIGHTLY_START_TIME "22:00:00 UTC")
-set(CDASH_MODEL "Nightly")
-set(EXTRA_VERSION "-git")
-include(gmsh_win32.ctest)
diff --git a/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32_test.ctest b/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32_test.ctest
deleted file mode 100644
index d10e7e4740d9843c6df8983a93ab009ed627072a..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/utils/nightly/gmsh_win32_test.ctest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-# Gmsh - Copyright (C) 1997-2017 C. Geuzaine, J.-F. Remacle
-#
-# See the LICENSE.txt file for license information. Please report all
-# bugs and problems to the public mailing list <gmsh@onelab.info>.
-
-set(EXTRA_VERSION "-git")
-include(gmsh_win32.ctest)