diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -50,13 +50,11 @@
     ecm_install_po_files_as_qm(po)
 endif()
 add_definitions(-DQT_NO_FOREACH)
+add_subdirectory(data)
 add_subdirectory(src)
 if (BUILD_TESTING)
      add_subdirectory(autotests)
 endif()
-if (NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
-	add_subdirectory(data)
-endif()
 
 if(TARGET Qt5::Widgets)
     add_subdirectory(examples)
diff --git a/data/CMakeLists.txt b/data/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/data/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/data/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,22 +1,25 @@
-project(sonnetdata)
-
 include(ECMMarkNonGuiExecutable)
 
-add_executable(parsetrigrams parsetrigrams.cpp)
-add_executable(gentrigrams gentrigrams.cpp)
+if(NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
+    add_executable(parsetrigrams parsetrigrams.cpp)
+    add_executable(gentrigrams gentrigrams.cpp)
 
-# Mark it as non-gui so we won't create an app bundle on Mac OS X
-ecm_mark_nongui_executable(parsetrigrams)
-ecm_mark_nongui_executable(gentrigrams)
+    # Mark it as non-gui so we won't create an app bundle on Mac OS X
+    ecm_mark_nongui_executable(parsetrigrams)
+    ecm_mark_nongui_executable(gentrigrams)
 
-TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(parsetrigrams PUBLIC Qt5::Core)
-TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(gentrigrams PUBLIC Qt5::Core KF5::SonnetCore)
-INSTALL(TARGETS parsetrigrams ${KF5_INSTALL_TARGETS_DEFAULT_ARGS})
-INSTALL(TARGETS gentrigrams ${KF5_INSTALL_TARGETS_DEFAULT_ARGS})
+    TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(parsetrigrams PUBLIC Qt5::Core)
+    TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(gentrigrams PUBLIC Qt5::Core KF5::SonnetCore)
+    INSTALL(TARGETS parsetrigrams ${KF5_INSTALL_TARGETS_DEFAULT_ARGS})
+    INSTALL(TARGETS gentrigrams ${KF5_INSTALL_TARGETS_DEFAULT_ARGS})
 
-if(CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING AND PARSETRIGRAMS_EXECUTABLE)
-    add_executable(KF5::parsetrigrams IMPORTED GLOBAL)
-    set_target_properties(KF5::parsetrigrams PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION ${PARSETRIGRAMS_EXECUTABLE})
-else()
     add_executable(KF5::parsetrigrams ALIAS parsetrigrams)
+else()
+    if (NOT PARSETRIGRAMS_EXECUTABLE AND KF5_HOST_TOOLING)
+        find_program(PARSETRIGRAMS_EXECUTABLE parsetrigrams PATHS ${KF5_HOST_TOOLING}/${BIN_INSTALL_DIR} NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
+    endif()
+    if (PARSETRIGRAMS_EXECUTABLE)
+        add_executable(KF5::parsetrigrams IMPORTED GLOBAL)
+        set_target_properties(KF5::parsetrigrams PROPERTIES IMPORTED_LOCATION ${PARSETRIGRAMS_EXECUTABLE})
+    endif()
 endif()
diff --git a/src/core/CMakeLists.txt b/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,11 +13,10 @@
    languagefilter.cpp
 )
 
-if (NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
-    # create trigrams file + add trigrams resource
+# create trigrams file + add trigrams resource
+if (TARGET KF5::parsetrigrams)
     add_custom_command(OUTPUT "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/data/trigrams.map"
-                       DEPENDS parsetrigrams
-                       COMMAND $<TARGET_FILE:KF5::parsetrigrams> "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/data/trigrams" > "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/data/trigrams.map")
+                       COMMAND KF5::parsetrigrams "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/data/trigrams" > "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/data/trigrams.map")
     configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/data/trigrams.qrc.in ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/data/trigrams.qrc @ONLY)
     qt5_add_resources(sonnetcore_SRCS "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/data/trigrams.qrc")
 endif()