diff --git a/kcmkwin/kwincompositing/CMakeLists.txt b/kcmkwin/kwincompositing/CMakeLists.txt
index 540a41f1d2..e7ae25c96c 100644
--- a/kcmkwin/kwincompositing/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/kcmkwin/kwincompositing/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -10,10 +10,6 @@ include_directories(${KWIN_SOURCE_DIR}/effects)
 
 ################# configure checks and create the configured files #################
 
-# now create config headers
-configure_file(config-prefix.h.cmake ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/config-prefix.h )
-configure_file(config-compiler.h.cmake ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/config-compiler.h )
-
 set(kwincomposing_SRC
     model.cpp
     main.cpp
diff --git a/kcmkwin/kwincompositing/config-compiler.h.cmake b/kcmkwin/kwincompositing/config-compiler.h.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index c389841ae6..0000000000
--- a/kcmkwin/kwincompositing/config-compiler.h.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-
-#define KDE_COMPILER_VERSION "${KDE_COMPILER_VERSION}"
-
-#define KDE_COMPILING_OS  "${CMAKE_SYSTEM}"
-
-#define KDE_DISTRIBUTION_TEXT "${KDE_DISTRIBUTION_TEXT}"
-
diff --git a/kcmkwin/kwincompositing/config-prefix.h.cmake b/kcmkwin/kwincompositing/config-prefix.h.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 9d15b5f6af..0000000000
--- a/kcmkwin/kwincompositing/config-prefix.h.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-/* This file contains all the paths that change when changing the installation prefix */
-
-#define CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}"
-
-/* The compiled in system configuration prefix */
-#define KDESYSCONFDIR "${SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR}"
-
-#define __KDE_BINDIR "${BIN_INSTALL_DIR}"
-
-/* Compile in the exec prefix to help kstddirs in finding dynamic libs
-   (This was for exec_prefix != prefix - still needed?) */
-#define __KDE_EXECPREFIX "NONE"
-
-#define LIBEXEC_INSTALL_DIR "${LIBEXEC_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define DATA_INSTALL_DIR "${DATA_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define LIB_INSTALL_DIR "${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR "${INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define BIN_INSTALL_DIR "${BIN_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define CONFIG_INSTALL_DIR "${CONFIG_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define HTML_INSTALL_DIR "${HTML_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define ICON_INSTALL_DIR "${ICON_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define KCFG_INSTALL_DIR "${KCFG_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR "${PLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR "${SERVICES_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define SERVICETYPES_INSTALL_DIR "${SERVICETYPES_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define SOUND_INSTALL_DIR "${SOUND_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define TEMPLATES_INSTALL_DIR "${TEMPLATES_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define WALLPAPER_INSTALL_DIR "${WALLPAPER_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR "${XDG_APPS_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define XDG_DIRECTORY_INSTALL_DIR "${XDG_DIRECTORY_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define EXEC_INSTALL_PREFIX "${EXEC_INSTALL_PREFIX}"
-#define SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR "${SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define LOCALE_INSTALL_DIR "${LOCALE_INSTALL_DIR}"
-#define SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR "${SYSCONF_INSTALL_DIR}"