diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f7aaa38..9de873b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,11 +23,6 @@ if(NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE AND NOT CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES)
     "Debug" "Release" "MinSizeRel" "RelWithDebInfo")
 endif()
 
-# By default the Java-based components get built, but make it possible to disable that: if only the
-# core library is required, there's no need to build them, and that in turn eliminates the Maven and
-# JDK dependency.
-option(BUILD_IDLC "Build IDL preprocessor" ON)
-
 # By default don't treat warnings as errors, else anyone building it with a different compiler that
 # just happens to generate a warning, as well as anyone adding or modifying something and making a
 # small mistake would run into errors.  CI builds can be configured differently.
@@ -50,6 +45,12 @@ string(REPLACE " " "-" PROJECT_NAME_DASHED "${PROJECT_NAME_FULL}")
 string(TOUPPER ${PROJECT_NAME} PROJECT_NAME_CAPS)
 string(TOLOWER ${PROJECT_NAME} PROJECT_NAME_SMALL)
 
+# By default the Java-based components get built, but make it possible to disable that: if only the
+# core library is required, there's no need to build them, and that in turn eliminates the Maven and
+# JDK dependency.
+find_package(Maven 3.0 QUIET)
+option(BUILD_IDLC "Build IDL preprocessor" ${Maven_FOUND})
+
 set(CMAKE_C_STANDARD 99)
 if(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME STREQUAL "VxWorks")
   add_definitions(-std=c99)
diff --git a/colcon.pkg b/colcon.pkg
deleted file mode 100644
index 2d2a3ae..0000000
--- a/colcon.pkg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "cmake-args": [ "-DBUILD_IDLC=OFF" ]
-}
diff --git a/package.xml b/package.xml
index 9d0980d..5b4b661 100644
--- a/package.xml
+++ b/package.xml
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
     <url type="repository">https://github.com/eclipse-cyclonedds/cyclonedds</url>
 
     <buildtool_depend>cmake</buildtool_depend>
+    <buildtool_depend>java</buildtool_depend>
+    <buildtool_depend>maven</buildtool_depend>
     <depend>openssl</depend>
     <test_depend>libcunit-dev</test_depend>
     <doc_depend>python3-sphinx</doc_depend>