diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 3672005..a39e0df 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -2090,14 +2090,13 @@ libsystemd_includes = [basic_includes, include_directories(
 includes = [libsystemd_includes, include_directories('src/shared')]
 
 subdir('po')
-subdir('catalog')
+support_url='https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues'
 subdir('src/include')
 subdir('src/libc')
 subdir('src/fundamental')
 subdir('src/basic')
 subdir('src/libsystemd')
-subdir('src/shared')
-subdir('src/libudev')
+static_libudev='unused'
 
 libsystemd = shared_library(
         'systemd',
@@ -2115,7 +2114,8 @@ libsystemd = shared_library(
                         threads,
                         userspace],
         link_depends : libsystemd_sym,
-        install : true,
+        build_by_default : static_libsystemd == 'false',
+        install : static_libsystemd == 'false',
         install_tag: 'libsystemd',
         install_dir : libdir)
 
@@ -2148,6 +2148,8 @@ else
         alias_target('libsystemd', libsystemd)
 endif
 
+if false
+
 libudev = shared_library(
         'udev',
         version : libudev_version,
@@ -3006,6 +3008,17 @@ if conf.get('ENABLE_HWDB') == 1
         alias_target('hwdb', auto_suspend_rules, executables_by_name.get('systemd-hwdb'), hwdb_units)
 endif
 
+else
+  # headers
+  subdir('src/systemd')
+  # subdir man
+  want_html=false
+  want_man=false
+  # subdir shell-completion/*
+  bashcompletiondir='no'
+  zshcompletiondir='no'
+endif
+
 alt_time_epoch = run_command('date', '-Is', '-u', '-d', f'@@time_epoch@', check : false)
 if alt_time_epoch.returncode() != 0
         # If the above fails, maybe the date(1) uses BSD-style syntax