diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 6c66587..e69de29 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "external/spdlog"]
-	path = external/spdlog
-	url = https://github.com/gabime/spdlog.git
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6a84601..40fc7cd 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@ project(zynqDump VERSION 0.1.0)
 # include(CTest)
 # enable_testing()
 add_compile_options(-std=c++14)
-add_subdirectory(external/spdlog)
-find_package(spdlog)
+include_directories("/home/nam/sw/include")
 
-include_directories(include)
 add_library(channel STATIC channel.cc)
 
 add_executable(zynqDump client.cc)
diff --git a/external/spdlog b/external/spdlog
deleted file mode 160000
index a530b87..0000000
--- a/external/spdlog
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit a530b87fd0fcca818c4504f834340c5c263b3049