diff --git a/cpp/CHANGELOG.md b/cpp/CHANGELOG.md
index 5cbe13a3e6..29539d929b 100644
--- a/cpp/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/cpp/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Please mark all change in change log and use the ticket from JIRA.
 - MS-52 - Return search score
 - MS-66 - Support time range query
 - MS-68 - Remove rocksdb from third-party
+- MS-70 - cmake: remove redundant libs in src
 
 ## Task
 
diff --git a/cpp/src/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 5669bd3f2d..5cd78f8047 100644
--- a/cpp/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cpp/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -54,33 +54,12 @@ set(get_sys_info_files
         license/GetSysInfo.cpp)
 
 include_directories(/usr/include)
-include_directories(/usr/local/cuda/include)
+include_directories("${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}/include")
 include_directories(thrift/gen-cpp)
 
-
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch boost_system_static)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch boost_filesystem_static)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch boost_serialization_static)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch bzip2)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch easyloggingpp)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch faiss)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch gtest)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch lapack)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch lz4)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch openblas)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch rocksdb)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch snappy)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch sqlite)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch sqlite_orm)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch thrift)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch yaml-cpp)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch zlib)
-#target_link_libraries(megasearch zstd)
-
 set(third_party_libs
         easyloggingpp
         sqlite
-        #        sqlite_orm
         thrift
         yaml-cpp
         faiss
@@ -102,47 +81,31 @@ set(third_party_libs
         )
 
 if (GPU_VERSION STREQUAL "ON")
-    link_directories(/usr/local/cuda/lib64)
+    link_directories("${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}/lib64")
     set(engine_libs
             pthread
-            libfaiss.a
-            libgpufaiss.a
             libgomp.a
-            libopenblas.a
             libgfortran.a
             libquadmath.a
             cudart
             cublas
-            libsqlite3.a
-            libprometheus-cpp-push.a
-            libprometheus-cpp-pull.a
-            libprometheus-cpp-core.a
             ${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}/lib64/stubs/libnvidia-ml.so
             )
 else()
     set(engine_libs
             pthread
-            libfaiss.a
             libgomp.a
-            libopenblas.a
             libgfortran.a
             libquadmath.a
-            libsqlite3.a
-            libprometheus-cpp-push.a
-            libprometheus-cpp-pull.a
-            libprometheus-cpp-core.a
             ${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}/lib64/stubs/libnvidia-ml.so
             )
 endif ()
 
 if (ENABLE_LICENSE STREQUAL "ON")
-    link_directories(/usr/local/cuda/lib64/stubs)
-    link_directories(/usr/local/cuda/lib64)
+    link_directories("${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}/lib64/stubs")
+    link_directories("${CUDA_TOOLKIT_ROOT_DIR}/lib64")
     set(license_libs
             nvidia-ml
-            libboost_system.a
-            libboost_filesystem.a
-            libboost_serialization.a
             crypto
             cudart
             cublas
@@ -172,16 +135,7 @@ endif ()
 
 set(server_libs
         vecwise_engine
-        libthrift.a
         pthread
-        libyaml-cpp.a
-        libboost_system.a
-        libboost_filesystem.a
-        libsnappy.a
-        libbz2.a
-        libz.a
-        libzstd.a
-        liblz4.a
         dl
         metrics
         )
diff --git a/cpp/src/sdk/CMakeLists.txt b/cpp/src/sdk/CMakeLists.txt
index 74f34d8615..4e4b8a2c23 100644
--- a/cpp/src/sdk/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/cpp/src/sdk/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ add_library(megasearch_sdk STATIC
         ${service_files}
         )
 
-link_directories(../../third_party/build/lib)
 target_link_libraries(megasearch_sdk
         ${third_party_libs}
         )