diff --git a/src/misc_utilities/CMakeLists.txt b/src/misc_utilities/CMakeLists.txt
index 676b809..0bc2e53 100644
--- a/src/misc_utilities/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/misc_utilities/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ target_link_libraries(openalpr)
 
 
 
-ADD_EXECUTABLE( sortstate  sortstate.cpp  )
+ADD_EXECUTABLE( sortstate EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL sortstate.cpp  )
 TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sortstate 
     openalpr-static
     support
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(sortstate
 	${Tesseract_LIBS}
   )
   
-ADD_EXECUTABLE( classifychars  classifychars.cpp )
+ADD_EXECUTABLE( classifychars EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL classifychars.cpp )
 TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(classifychars 
     openalpr-static
     support
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(classifychars
   )
   
   
-ADD_EXECUTABLE(benchmark  
+ADD_EXECUTABLE(benchmark  EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
 		benchmark/benchmark.cpp 
 		benchmark/benchmark_utils.cpp 
 		benchmark/endtoendtest.cpp 
@@ -34,14 +34,14 @@ TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(benchmark
   )
   
   
-ADD_EXECUTABLE( prepcharsfortraining  prepcharsfortraining.cpp )
+ADD_EXECUTABLE( prepcharsfortraining EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL prepcharsfortraining.cpp )
 TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(prepcharsfortraining 
     support
     ${OpenCV_LIBS} 
   )
   
   
-ADD_EXECUTABLE( tagplates  tagplates.cpp )
+ADD_EXECUTABLE( tagplates EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL tagplates.cpp )
 TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(tagplates 
     support
     ${OpenCV_LIBS}