diff --git a/src/libs/extensionsystem/extensionsystem.pro b/src/libs/extensionsystem/extensionsystem.pro
index bdaffbe0f4a0c34dadc56f56a4aa42586bb1326e..81f3bc8fc79284e905bd1ff1171ad66fc82d007a 100644
--- a/src/libs/extensionsystem/extensionsystem.pro
+++ b/src/libs/extensionsystem/extensionsystem.pro
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 TEMPLATE = lib
 TARGET = ExtensionSystem
-QT += xml
 DEFINES += EXTENSIONSYSTEM_LIBRARY
 include(../../qtcreatorlibrary.pri)
 include(extensionsystem_dependencies.pri)