diff --git a/examples/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
index 02c201d57d..a29dc707c3 100644
--- a/examples/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ else()
     add_subdirectory(gen-docs)
     add_subdirectory(training)
     add_subdirectory(diffusion)
-    add_subdirectory(model-conversion)
     if (NOT GGML_BACKEND_DL)
         add_subdirectory(convert-llama2c-to-ggml)
         # these examples use the backends directly and cannot be built with dynamic loading