diff --git a/examples/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
index 6b1d24e42..68ad89964 100644
--- a/examples/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ else()
     add_subdirectory(infill)
     add_subdirectory(llama-bench)
     add_subdirectory(llava)
-    add_subdirectory(sycl)
+    if (LLAMA_SYCL)
+        add_subdirectory(sycl)
+    endif()
     add_subdirectory(main)
     add_subdirectory(tokenize)
     add_subdirectory(parallel)