diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8cf8131a0..7d5c62cf0 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -540,6 +540,29 @@ macro (monero_enable_coverage)
   endif()
 endmacro()
 
+function (monero_add_library name)
+    monero_add_library_with_deps(NAME "${name}" SOURCES ${ARGN})
+endfunction()
+
+function (monero_add_library_with_deps)
+  cmake_parse_arguments(MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY "" "NAME" "DEPENDS;SOURCES" ${ARGN})
+  source_group("${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME}" FILES ${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_SOURCES})
+
+  # Define a ("virtual") object library and an actual library that links those
+  # objects together. The virtual libraries can be arbitrarily combined to link
+  # any subset of objects into one library archive. This is used for releasing
+  # libwallet, which combines multiple components.
+  set(objlib obj_${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME})
+  add_library(${objlib} OBJECT ${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_SOURCES})
+  add_library("${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME}" $<TARGET_OBJECTS:${objlib}>)
+  monero_set_target_no_relink("${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME}")
+  if (MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_DEPENDS)
+    add_dependencies(${objlib} ${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_DEPENDS})
+  endif()
+  set_property(TARGET "${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME}" PROPERTY FOLDER "libs")
+  target_compile_definitions(${objlib}
+    PRIVATE $<TARGET_PROPERTY:${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME},INTERFACE_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS>)
+endfunction ()
 
 # Generate header for embedded translations
 # Generate header for embedded translations, use target toolchain if depends, otherwise use the
diff --git a/contrib/epee/src/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/epee/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 4cb8c6bab..7bc75caf3 100644
--- a/contrib/epee/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/contrib/epee/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ set(EPEE_INCLUDE_DIR_BASE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../include")
 # Add headers to the file list, to be able to search for them and autosave in IDEs.
 monero_find_all_headers(EPEE_HEADERS_PUBLIC "${EPEE_INCLUDE_DIR_BASE}")
 
-add_library(epee STATIC byte_slice.cpp byte_stream.cpp hex.cpp abstract_http_client.cpp http_auth.cpp mlog.cpp net_helper.cpp net_utils_base.cpp string_tools.cpp
+monero_add_library(epee byte_slice.cpp byte_stream.cpp hex.cpp abstract_http_client.cpp http_auth.cpp mlog.cpp net_helper.cpp net_utils_base.cpp string_tools.cpp
     wipeable_string.cpp levin_base.cpp memwipe.c connection_basic.cpp network_throttle.cpp network_throttle-detail.cpp mlocker.cpp buffer.cpp net_ssl.cpp
     int-util.cpp portable_storage.cpp
     misc_language.cpp
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ add_library(epee STATIC byte_slice.cpp byte_stream.cpp hex.cpp abstract_http_cli
     )
 
 if (USE_READLINE AND (GNU_READLINE_FOUND OR (DEPENDS AND NOT MINGW)))
-  add_library(epee_readline STATIC readline_buffer.cpp)
+  monero_add_library(epee_readline readline_buffer.cpp)
 endif()
 
 if(HAVE_C11)
@@ -72,8 +72,9 @@ target_link_libraries(epee
     ${Boost_CHRONO_LIBRARY}
     ${Boost_FILESYSTEM_LIBRARY}
     ${Boost_THREAD_LIBRARY}
-  PRIVATE
+    ${Boost_REGEX_LIBRARY}
     ${OPENSSL_LIBRARIES}
+  PRIVATE
     ${EXTRA_LIBRARIES})
 
 if (USE_READLINE AND (GNU_READLINE_FOUND OR (DEPENDS AND NOT MINGW)))
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 9904c5de7..1f89faf98 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -79,30 +79,6 @@ function (monero_add_executable name)
   monero_set_target_no_relink("${name}")
 endfunction ()
 
-function (monero_add_library name)
-    monero_add_library_with_deps(NAME "${name}" SOURCES ${ARGN})
-endfunction()
-
-function (monero_add_library_with_deps)
-  cmake_parse_arguments(MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY "" "NAME" "DEPENDS;SOURCES" ${ARGN})
-  source_group("${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME}" FILES ${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_SOURCES})
-
-  # Define a ("virtual") object library and an actual library that links those
-  # objects together. The virtual libraries can be arbitrarily combined to link
-  # any subset of objects into one library archive. This is used for releasing
-  # libwallet, which combines multiple components.
-  set(objlib obj_${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME})
-  add_library(${objlib} OBJECT ${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_SOURCES})
-  add_library("${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME}" $<TARGET_OBJECTS:${objlib}>)
-  monero_set_target_no_relink("${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME}")
-  if (MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_DEPENDS)
-    add_dependencies(${objlib} ${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_DEPENDS})
-  endif()
-  set_property(TARGET "${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME}" PROPERTY FOLDER "libs")
-  target_compile_definitions(${objlib}
-    PRIVATE $<TARGET_PROPERTY:${MONERO_ADD_LIBRARY_NAME},INTERFACE_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS>)
-endfunction ()
-
 include(Version)
 monero_add_library(version SOURCES ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/version.cpp DEPENDS genversion)