diff --git a/scripts/CMakeLists.txt b/scripts/CMakeLists.txt
index e7298ce..16e9000 100644
--- a/scripts/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/scripts/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -231,36 +239,6 @@ if (DO_PERL_BINDINGS)
     install(TARGETS bindings_perl LIBRARY DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR})
     install(FILES ${openbabel_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/perl/OpenBabel.pm DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR})
 
-    set(PERL_INSTALLDIRS_TEXT "")
-    if (OBPERL_INSTALLDIRS)
-      set(PERL_INSTALLDIRS_TEXT "INSTALLDIRS=${OBPERL_INSTALLDIRS}")
-    endif (OBPERL_INSTALLDIRS)
-
-    if (NOT MSVC)
-      add_custom_target(pre_bindings_perl ALL
-        # Create the scripts/perl directory; we cannot do this inside
-        # bindings_perl as the WORKING_DIRECTORY needs to already exist!
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory ${openbabel_BINARY_DIR}/scripts/perl
-        )
-      add_custom_target(bindings_perl ALL
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${openbabel_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/perl/Makefile.PL ${openbabel_BINARY_DIR}/scripts/perl
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${openbabel_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/perl/OpenBabel.pm ${openbabel_BINARY_DIR}/scripts/perl
-        COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy ${openbabel_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/perl/openbabel-perl.cpp ${openbabel_BINARY_DIR}/scripts/perl
-        COMMAND PERL5LIB=${openbabel_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/perl/inc SRC_DIR=${openbabel_SOURCE_DIR} OBJ_DIR=${openbabel_BINARY_DIR} ${PERL_EXECUTABLE} ${openbabel_BINARY_DIR}/scripts/perl/Makefile.PL ${PERL_PREFIX_TEXT} ${PERL_INSTALLDIRS_TEXT}
-        COMMAND PERL5LIB=${openbabel_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/perl/inc make
-            DEPENDS openbabel ${openbabel_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/perl/openbabel-perl.cpp
-            WORKING_DIRECTORY ${openbabel_BINARY_DIR}/scripts/perl
-        )
-      add_dependencies(bindings_perl pre_bindings_perl openbabel)
-      install(CODE "execute_process(COMMAND make install DESTDIR=\$ENV{DESTDIR} WORKING_DIRECTORY ${openbabel_BINARY_DIR}/scripts/perl)")
-
-    else (NOT MSVC)
-      add_library(bindings_perl MODULE ${openbabel_SOURCE_DIR}/scripts/perl/openbabel-perl.cpp)
-      target_link_libraries(bindings_perl ${PERL_LIBRARY} ${BABEL_LIBRARY})
-      set_target_properties(bindings_perl PROPERTIES
-          OUTPUT_NAME openbabel_perl )
-    endif(NOT MSVC)
-
 endif (DO_PERL_BINDINGS)
 
 ###################