diff -ru a/3rdparty/CMakeLists.txt b/3rdparty/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/3rdparty/CMakeLists.txt	2025-09-16 11:41:32.000000000 -0500
+++ b/3rdparty/CMakeLists.txt	2025-09-18 14:00:25.296819724 -0500
@@ -1,67 +1,47 @@
 cmake_minimum_required (VERSION 3.16...3.31)
-
+find_package(PkgConfig QUIET)
 include(CheckCompilerFlagsOutput)
 
-SET(UTF8PROC_INSTALL OFF CACHE BOOL "Enable installation of utf8proc" FORCE)
-add_subdirectory(utf8proc EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
-set_property(TARGET utf8proc PROPERTY FOLDER "3rdparty")
-if(NOT MSVC)
-	set(_supported_utf8proc_cxx_compiler_flags "")
-
-	# -Wassign-enum
-	check_compiler_flags_output("-Werror -Wno-assign-enum -Wno-error=cpp" COMPILER_TYPE CXX   OUTPUT_FLAGS "-Wno-assign-enum" OUTPUT_VARIABLE _supported_utf8proc_cxx_compiler_flags APPEND)
-
-	if (NOT _supported_utf8proc_cxx_compiler_flags STREQUAL "")
-		string(REPLACE " " ";" _supported_utf8proc_cxx_compiler_flags "${_supported_utf8proc_cxx_compiler_flags}")
-		target_compile_options(utf8proc PRIVATE ${_supported_utf8proc_cxx_compiler_flags})
-	endif()
-endif()
+pkg_check_modules(UTF8PROC REQUIRED libutf8proc)
+add_library(utf8proc UNKNOWN IMPORTED)
+set_target_properties(utf8proc PROPERTIES
+	IMPORTED_LOCATION ${UTF8PROC_LIBRARIES}
+	INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${UTF8PROC_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+	INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES ${UTF8PROC_LINK_LIBRARIES}
+)
 
 add_subdirectory(launchinfo EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 set_property(TARGET launchinfo PROPERTY FOLDER "3rdparty")
 
-SET(FMT_INSTALL OFF CACHE BOOL "Generate the install target" FORCE)
-SET(FMT_SYSTEM_HEADERS ON CACHE BOOL "Expose headers with marking them as system." FORCE)
-add_subdirectory(fmt EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
-set_property(TARGET fmt PROPERTY FOLDER "3rdparty")
-# Define a custom inline namespace for the fmt used by WZ, to prevent ODR violations if static linking to any libraries that themselves embed (a different version of) fmt
-target_compile_definitions(fmt PUBLIC "FMT_BEGIN_NAMESPACE=namespace fmt { inline namespace v12_wz2100 {")
-target_compile_definitions(fmt PUBLIC "FMT_END_NAMESPACE=}}")
-
+pkg_check_modules(FMT REQUIRED fmt)
+add_library(fmt UNKNOWN IMPORTED)
+set_target_properties(fmt PROPERTIES
+	IMPORTED_LOCATION ${FMT_LIBRARIES}
+	INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${FMT_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+	INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES ${FMT_LINK_LIBRARIES}
+)
 
 # inih library
-add_library(inih STATIC "inih/ini.h" "inih/ini.c")
-set_property(TARGET inih PROPERTY FOLDER "3rdparty")
-target_include_directories(inih PUBLIC "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}")
-target_compile_definitions(inih PRIVATE
-	"-DINI_API="
-	"-DINI_ALLOW_MULTILINE=0"
-	"-DINI_ALLOW_BOM=1"
-	"-DINI_ALLOW_INLINE_COMMENTS=0"
-	"-DINI_MAX_LINE=1024"
-	"-DINI_ALLOW_REALLOC=1"
-	"-DINI_INITIAL_ALLOC=1024"
+pkg_check_modules(INIH REQUIRED inih)
+add_library(inih UNKNOWN IMPORTED)
+set_target_properties(inih PROPERTIES
+	IMPORTED_LOCATION ${INIH_LIBRARIES}
+	INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${INIH_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+	INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES ${INIH_LINK_LIBRARIES}
 )
 
 # re2
-SET(RE2_BUILD_TESTING OFF CACHE BOOL "enable testing for RE2" FORCE)
-add_subdirectory(re2 EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
-target_include_directories(re2 PUBLIC
-    $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/re2>
+pkg_check_modules(RE2 REQUIRED re2)
+add_library(re2 UNKNOWN IMPORTED)
+set_target_properties(re2 PROPERTIES
+	IMPORTED_LOCATION ${RE2_LIBRARIES}
+	INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${RE2_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+	INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES ${RE2_LINK_LIBRARIES}
 )
-set_property(TARGET re2 PROPERTY FOLDER "3rdparty")
-set_property(TARGET re2 PROPERTY XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_GCC_WARN_ABOUT_MISSING_FIELD_INITIALIZERS NO)	# -Wmissing-field-initializers
-set_property(TARGET re2 PROPERTY XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_GCC_WARN_SHADOW NO)	# -Wshadow
-set_property(TARGET re2 PROPERTY XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_WARNING_CFLAGS "-Wno-missing-field-initializers -Wno-shadow")
 
 add_subdirectory(EmbeddedJSONSignature EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
 set_property(TARGET EmbeddedJSONSignature PROPERTY FOLDER "3rdparty")
 
-if(ENABLE_DISCORD)
-	add_subdirectory(discord-rpc EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
-	set_property(TARGET discord-rpc PROPERTY FOLDER "3rdparty")
-endif()
-
 find_package(SQLite3 3.14 REQUIRED)
 set(SQLITECPP_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME OFF CACHE BOOL "Use static runtime" FORCE)
 set(SQLITE_HAS_CODEC OFF CACHE BOOL "Enable database encryption API. Not available in the public release of SQLite." FORCE)
@@ -111,52 +91,7 @@
 if (WZ_ENABLE_BASIS_UNIVERSAL AND NOT WZ_CI_DISABLE_BASIS_COMPRESS_TEXTURES)
 
 	# basis-universal
-	set(_ORIGINAL_CMAKE_PROGRAM_PATH "${CMAKE_PROGRAM_PATH}")
-	if(DEFINED VCPKG_INSTALLED_DIR AND DEFINED VCPKG_HOST_TRIPLET)
-	  # Partial workaround for: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues/17001
-	  # Explicitly add the HOST_TRIPLET paths to CMAKE_PROGRAM_PATH
-	  list(APPEND CMAKE_PROGRAM_PATH "${VCPKG_INSTALLED_DIR}/${VCPKG_HOST_TRIPLET}")
-	endif()
-	find_program(BASIS_UNIVERSAL_CLI NAMES basisu PATH_SUFFIXES "tools/basisu" NO_CACHE)
-	set(CMAKE_PROGRAM_PATH "${_ORIGINAL_CMAKE_PROGRAM_PATH}")
-	if(NOT BASIS_UNIVERSAL_CLI)
-	  message(STATUS "Pre-installed basisu tool not found - attempting to build for host system")
-
-	  # Build the tool for the host system at configure time
-	  set(BASISU_BINARY_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/basis_universal_host_tool/")
-	  execute_process(
-		  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E make_directory "${BASISU_BINARY_DIR}"
-		  WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/basis_universal_host_build"
-		  RESULT_VARIABLE _basis_result
-	  )
-	  if(NOT _basis_result EQUAL 0)
-		message(FATAL_ERROR "Failed to create directory for basis_universal_host_build")
-	  endif()
-	  execute_process(
-		  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/basis_universal_host_build"
-		  WORKING_DIRECTORY "${BASISU_BINARY_DIR}"
-		  RESULT_VARIABLE _basis_result
-	  )
-	  if(NOT _basis_result EQUAL 0)
-		message(FATAL_ERROR "Failed to configure basis_universal_host_build")
-	  endif()
-	  execute_process(
-		  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} --build "${BASISU_BINARY_DIR}" --config Release
-		  WORKING_DIRECTORY "${BASISU_BINARY_DIR}"
-		  RESULT_VARIABLE _basis_result
-	  )
-	  if(NOT _basis_result EQUAL 0)
-		message(FATAL_ERROR "Basis-Universal host tool build failed")
-	  endif()
-	  message(STATUS "Basis-Universal Host Tool Built")
-
-	  find_program(BASIS_UNIVERSAL_CLI NAMES basisu PATHS "${BASISU_BINARY_DIR}/basis_install/bin" NO_CACHE NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
-	  if(NOT BASIS_UNIVERSAL_CLI)
-		message(FATAL_ERROR "Built basisu CLI tool not found!")
-	  endif()
-	else()
-	  message(STATUS "Pre-installed basisu tool found: ${BASIS_UNIVERSAL_CLI}")
-	endif()
+	find_program(BASIS_UNIVERSAL_CLI NAMES basisu REQUIRED)
 
 	# Test basisu -version
 	execute_process(
@@ -174,86 +109,6 @@
 
 endif()
 
-if (WZ_ENABLE_BASIS_UNIVERSAL)
-
-	# basis-universal transcoder
-
-	add_library(basis_transcoder STATIC "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/basis_universal/transcoder/basisu_transcoder.cpp" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/basis_universal/transcoder/basisu_transcoder.h" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/basis_universal/zstd/zstddeclib.c")
-	set_property(TARGET basis_transcoder PROPERTY FOLDER "3rdparty")
-	target_include_directories(basis_transcoder SYSTEM PUBLIC "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/basis_universal/transcoder")
-
-	if(NOT MSVC)
-		set(_supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags "")
-
-		# -fno-strict-aliasing		(GCC, Clang)
-		check_compiler_flags_output("-Werror -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-error=cpp" COMPILER_TYPE CXX   OUTPUT_FLAGS "-fno-strict-aliasing" OUTPUT_VARIABLE _supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags APPEND)
-
-		# -Wcast-align				(GCC 3.4+, Clang 3.2+)
-		check_compiler_flags_output("-Werror -Wno-cast-align -Wno-error=cpp" COMPILER_TYPE CXX   OUTPUT_FLAGS "-Wno-cast-align" OUTPUT_VARIABLE _supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags APPEND)
-
-		# -Wdeprecated-declarations
-		check_compiler_flags_output("-Werror -Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-error=cpp" COMPILER_TYPE CXX   OUTPUT_FLAGS "-Wno-deprecated-declarations" OUTPUT_VARIABLE _supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags APPEND)
-
-		# -Wunused-but-set-variable
-		check_compiler_flags_output("-Werror -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -Wno-error=cpp" COMPILER_TYPE CXX   OUTPUT_FLAGS "-Wno-unused-but-set-variable" OUTPUT_VARIABLE _supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags APPEND)
-
-		# -Wunused-function
-		check_compiler_flags_output("-Werror -Wno-unused-function -Wno-error=cpp" COMPILER_TYPE CXX   OUTPUT_FLAGS "-Wno-unused-function" OUTPUT_VARIABLE _supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags APPEND)
-
-		# -Wunused-const-variable
-		check_compiler_flags_output("-Werror -Wno-unused-const-variable -Wno-error=cpp" COMPILER_TYPE CXX   OUTPUT_FLAGS "-Wno-unused-const-variable" OUTPUT_VARIABLE _supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags APPEND)
-
-		# -Wunknown-warning-option
-		check_compiler_flags_output("-Werror -Wno-unknown-warning-option -Wno-error=cpp" COMPILER_TYPE CXX   OUTPUT_FLAGS "-Wno-unknown-warning-option" OUTPUT_VARIABLE _supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags APPEND)
-
-		# -Wnontrivial-memcall
-		check_compiler_flags_output("-Werror -Wno-nontrivial-memcall -Wno-error=cpp" COMPILER_TYPE CXX   OUTPUT_FLAGS "-Wno-nontrivial-memcall" OUTPUT_VARIABLE _supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags APPEND)
-
-		if (NOT _supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags STREQUAL "")
-			string(REPLACE " " ";" _supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags "${_supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags}")
-			target_compile_options(basis_transcoder PRIVATE ${_supported_basistranscoder_cxx_compiler_flags})
-		endif()
-	endif()
-
-	# Must also set BASISD_IS_BIG_ENDIAN if the target platform is big-endian!
-	if (NOT DEFINED CMAKE_CXX_BYTE_ORDER AND CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS 3.20)
-		# CMake < 3.20 does not have CMAKE_<LANG>_BYTE_ORDER
-		# Instead, use the older TestBigEndian module (although this may not work for cross-compilation)
-		if (NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
-			include(TestBigEndian)
-			test_big_endian(IS_BIGENDIAN)
-			if (IS_BIGENDIAN)
-				set(CMAKE_CXX_BYTE_ORDER "BIG_ENDIAN")
-			endif()
-		else()
-			message(WARNING "Unable to determine endianness for target architecture. Either upgrade to CMake 3.20+, or - if big endian - manually set the CMAKE_CXX_BYTE_ORDER cache variable to \"BIG_ENDIAN\". Otherwise, assuming little endian.")
-		endif()
-	endif()
-	if (DEFINED CMAKE_CXX_BYTE_ORDER AND CMAKE_CXX_BYTE_ORDER STREQUAL "BIG_ENDIAN")
-		message(STATUS "Defining BASISD_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=1")
-		target_compile_definitions(basis_transcoder PRIVATE "-DBASISD_IS_BIG_ENDIAN=1")
-	endif()
-
-	# Must set BASISU_HAVE_STD_TRIVIALLY_COPYABLE if the target supports std::is_trivially_copyable
-	include(CheckCXXSourceCompiles)
-	check_cxx_source_compiles("
-		#include <type_traits>
-		const bool val = std::is_trivially_copyable<bool>::value;
-		int main()
-		{
-			return 0;
-		}"
-		HAVE_STD_IS_TRIVIALLY_COPYABLE
-	)
-	if (HAVE_STD_IS_TRIVIALLY_COPYABLE)
-		target_compile_definitions(basis_transcoder PUBLIC "-DBASISU_HAVE_STD_TRIVIALLY_COPYABLE")
-	endif()
-
-	# Disable certain transcoder formats
-	target_compile_definitions(basis_transcoder PRIVATE "-DBASISD_SUPPORT_ATC=0" "-DBASISD_SUPPORT_PVRTC1=0" "-DBASISD_SUPPORT_PVRTC2=0")
-
-endif(WZ_ENABLE_BASIS_UNIVERSAL)
-
 if (WZ_PROFILING_NVTX)
 	include(FetchContent)
 	FetchContent_Declare(
diff -ru a/lib/framework/wzstring.cpp b/lib/framework/wzstring.cpp
--- a/lib/framework/wzstring.cpp
+++ b/lib/framework/wzstring.cpp
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@
 // "By default, Visual Studio always returns the value 199711L for the __cplusplus preprocessor macro."
 #define UTF_CPP_CPLUSPLUS 201703L
 #endif
-#include <utfcpp/source/utf8.h>
-#include <utf8proc/utf8proc.h>
+#include <utf8cpp/utf8.h>
+#include <utf8proc.h>
 
 WzUniCodepoint WzUniCodepoint::fromASCII(unsigned char charLiteral)
 {
diff -ru a/lib/ivis_opengl/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/ivis_opengl/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/lib/ivis_opengl/CMakeLists.txt	2025-09-16 11:41:32.000000000 -0500
+++ b/lib/ivis_opengl/CMakeLists.txt	2025-09-18 14:00:13.716771596 -0500
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
 include(WZTargetConfiguration)
 WZ_TARGET_CONFIGURATION(ivis-opengl)
 
-target_link_libraries(ivis-opengl PRIVATE framework launchinfo fmt::fmt)
+target_link_libraries(ivis-opengl PRIVATE framework launchinfo fmt)
 if(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME MATCHES "Emscripten")
 	# We should be using the Emscripten port linker flags for FreeType & Harfbuzz
 else()
@@ -116,8 +116,11 @@
 	target_link_libraries(ivis-opengl PRIVATE etcpak)
 	target_compile_definitions(ivis-opengl PRIVATE "-DETCPAK_ENABLED")
 endif()
-if(WZ_ENABLE_BASIS_UNIVERSAL AND TARGET basis_transcoder)
-	target_link_libraries(ivis-opengl PRIVATE basis_transcoder)
+if(WZ_ENABLE_BASIS_UNIVERSAL)
+	find_package(PkgConfig QUIET)
+	pkg_check_modules(BASIS REQUIRED basisu_encoder)
+	target_include_directories(ivis-opengl PUBLIC ${BASIS_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+	target_link_libraries(ivis-opengl PRIVATE ${BASIS_LINK_LIBRARIES})
 	target_compile_definitions(ivis-opengl PRIVATE "-DBASIS_ENABLED")
 else()
 	message(WARNING "Basis-universal support is disabled")
diff -ru a/lib/netplay/CMakeLists.txt b/lib/netplay/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/lib/netplay/CMakeLists.txt	2025-09-16 11:41:32.000000000 -0500
+++ b/lib/netplay/CMakeLists.txt	2025-09-18 13:37:23.686969530 -0500
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
 include(WZTargetConfiguration)
 WZ_TARGET_CONFIGURATION(netplay)
 target_link_libraries(netplay
-	PRIVATE framework re2::re2 nlohmann_json plum-static Threads::Threads ZLIB::ZLIB fmt::fmt
+	PRIVATE framework re2 nlohmann_json plum-static Threads::Threads ZLIB::ZLIB fmt
 	PUBLIC tl::expected)
 
 if(WZ_USE_IMPORTED_MINIUPNPC)
diff -ru a/src/3rdparty/INIReaderWriter.cpp b/src/3rdparty/INIReaderWriter.cpp
--- a/src/3rdparty/INIReaderWriter.cpp	2025-09-16 11:41:32.000000000 -0500
+++ b/src/3rdparty/INIReaderWriter.cpp	2025-09-18 13:37:23.687094584 -0500
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 #ifndef INI_API
 # define INI_API
 #endif
-#include <inih/ini.h>
+#include <ini.h>
 #include "INIReaderWriter.h"
 
 using std::string;
diff -ru a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt	2025-09-16 11:41:32.000000000 -0500
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt	2025-09-18 13:37:23.687282446 -0500
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
 
 target_link_libraries(warzone2100 exception-handler gamelib wzmaplib ZipIOProvider ivis-opengl netplay sdl-backend framework sequence sound widget)
 target_link_libraries(warzone2100 launchinfo EmbeddedJSONSignature)
-target_link_libraries(warzone2100 fmt::fmt)
+target_link_libraries(warzone2100 fmt)
 if(ENABLE_NLS)
 	target_link_libraries(warzone2100 ${Intl_LIBRARIES})
 endif()
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
 	include(IncludeFindCurl)
 	target_link_libraries(warzone2100 CURL::libcurl)
 endif()
-target_link_libraries(warzone2100 re2::re2)
+target_link_libraries(warzone2100 re2)
 
 find_package(SQLite3 3.14 REQUIRED)
 target_link_libraries(warzone2100 SQLite::SQLite3)
