diff --git a/src/plugins/cpaster/CMakeLists.txt b/src/plugins/cpaster/CMakeLists.txt
index 6e17d5c43bf..d631177c4e3 100644
--- a/src/plugins/cpaster/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/plugins/cpaster/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+add_subdirectory(frontend)
+
 add_qtc_plugin(CodePaster
   PLUGIN_DEPENDS Core TextEditor
   DEFINES CPASTER_PLUGIN_GUI
diff --git a/src/plugins/cpaster/frontend/CMakeLists.txt b/src/plugins/cpaster/frontend/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9adc4e2e0c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/plugins/cpaster/frontend/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+add_qtc_executable(cpaster
+  DEPENDS Core Utils Qt5::Network
+  SOURCES
+    argumentscollector.cpp argumentscollector.h
+    main.cpp
+    ../pastebindotcomprotocol.cpp ../pastebindotcomprotocol.h
+    ../pastecodedotxyzprotocol.cpp ../pastecodedotxyzprotocol.h
+    ../protocol.cpp ../protocol.h
+    ../urlopenprotocol.cpp ../urlopenprotocol.h
+)