diff --git a/cmake/environmentchecks.cmake b/cmake/environmentchecks.cmake
index 9da1d7810..260b5c0ae 100644
--- a/cmake/environmentchecks.cmake
+++ b/cmake/environmentchecks.cmake
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ else ()
   endif()
   find_program(CLANG_FORMAT_EXE NAMES ${PREFERRED_CLANG_FORMAT_NAMES} clang-format)
   find_program(CLANG_TIDY_EXE NAMES ${PREFERRED_CLANG_TIDY_NAMES} clang-tidy)
-  find_program(DOT_EXE NAMES ${PREFERRED_FIND_NAMES} dot)
   find_program(FIND_EXE NAMES ${PREFERRED_FIND_NAMES} find)
   find_program(GCOV_EXE NAMES ${PREFERRED_GCOV_NAMES} gcov)
   find_program(LLVM_COV_EXE NAMES ${PREFERRED_LLVM_COV_NAMES} llvm-cov HINTS ${LLVM_BIN_DIR} ENV PATH /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/)
@@ -95,7 +94,6 @@ else ()
     BUILDCACHE_EXE
     CLANG_TIDY_EXE
     CLANG_FORMAT_EXE
-    DOT_EXE
     FIND_EXE
     GCC_COVERAGE_COMPILER_FLAGS_OK
     GCOV_EXE
diff --git a/docs/CMakeLists.txt b/docs/CMakeLists.txt
index 8498fc7b4..4c05459a2 100644
--- a/docs/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/docs/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ if(SPHINX_FOUND)
     COMMENT "Building HTML documentation with Sphinx")
 endif()
 
-if(DOXYGEN_FOUND AND DOT_EXE)
+if(DOXYGEN_FOUND)
   set(DOXYGEN_DOCS_TARGET api_docs)
   configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/Doxyfile.in.config ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/Doxyfile @ONLY)
   add_custom_target(${DOXYGEN_DOCS_TARGET}