diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9d93a60ba..1d7410708 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ It can be set by the user in different locations if needed.
 git clone https://github.com/ROCm/rocprofiler-sdk.git rocprofiler-sdk-source
 cmake                                         \
       -B rocprofiler-sdk-build                \
+      -D ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TOOLS=ON           \
       -D ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TESTS=ON           \
       -D ROCPROFILER_BUILD_SAMPLES=ON         \
       -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/rocm       \
diff --git a/cmake/rocprofiler_config_install.cmake b/cmake/rocprofiler_config_install.cmake
index 5b067e895..91fd63d44 100644
--- a/cmake/rocprofiler_config_install.cmake
+++ b/cmake/rocprofiler_config_install.cmake
@@ -17,25 +17,29 @@ if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_DOCS)
         COMPONENT docs)
 endif()
 
-install(
-    FILES ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/LICENSE
-    DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/doc/${PACKAGE_NAME}-tests
-    COMPONENT tests)
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_SAMPLES)
+    install(
+        DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/samples
+        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/${PACKAGE_NAME}
+        COMPONENT samples)
+endif()
 
-install(
-    DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/samples
-    DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/${PACKAGE_NAME}
-    COMPONENT samples)
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TESTS)
+    install(
+        FILES ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/LICENSE
+        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/doc/${PACKAGE_NAME}-tests
+        COMPONENT tests)
 
-install(
-    DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/tests
-    DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/${PACKAGE_NAME}
-    COMPONENT tests)
+    install(
+        DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/tests
+        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/${PACKAGE_NAME}
+        COMPONENT tests)
 
-install(
-    FILES ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/requirements.txt
-    DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/${PACKAGE_NAME}/tests
-    COMPONENT tests)
+    install(
+        FILES ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/requirements.txt
+        DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_DATAROOTDIR}/${PACKAGE_NAME}/tests
+        COMPONENT tests)
+endif()
 
 install(
     EXPORT ${PACKAGE_NAME}-targets
diff --git a/cmake/rocprofiler_config_packaging.cmake b/cmake/rocprofiler_config_packaging.cmake
index 01a62b247..edd6bd432 100644
--- a/cmake/rocprofiler_config_packaging.cmake
+++ b/cmake/rocprofiler_config_packaging.cmake
@@ -85,9 +85,18 @@ set(COMPONENT_DESC_docs "rocprofiler-sdk documentation")
 set(COMPONENT_DESC_tests "rocprofiler-sdk tests")
 set(COMPONENT_DESC_roctx "ROCm Tools Extension library and headers")
 
-set(EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS 6)
+set(EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS 3)
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TOOLS)
+    math(EXPR EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS "${EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS} + 1" DECIMAL)
+endif()
 if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_DOCS)
-    set(EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS 7)
+    math(EXPR EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS "${EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS} + 1" DECIMAL)
+endif()
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_SAMPLES)
+    math(EXPR EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS "${EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS} + 1" DECIMAL)
+endif()
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TESTS)
+    math(EXPR EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS "${EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS} + 1" DECIMAL)
 endif()
 
 if(NOT NUM_ROCPROFILER_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS EQUAL EXPECTED_PACKAGING_COMPONENTS)
diff --git a/cmake/rocprofiler_options.cmake b/cmake/rocprofiler_options.cmake
index 2da744561..be6aa4897 100644
--- a/cmake/rocprofiler_options.cmake
+++ b/cmake/rocprofiler_options.cmake
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ rocprofiler_add_option(
     ROCPROFILER_BUILD_CI "Enable continuous integration default values for options" OFF
     ADVANCED)
 
+rocprofiler_add_option(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TOOLS "Enable building the tools"
+                       ${ROCPROFILER_BUILD_CI})
 rocprofiler_add_option(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TESTS "Enable building the tests"
                        ${ROCPROFILER_BUILD_CI})
 rocprofiler_add_option(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_SAMPLES "Enable building the code samples"
diff --git a/external/CMakeLists.txt b/external/CMakeLists.txt
index bb26a4e67..76621196a 100644
--- a/external/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/external/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -167,28 +167,30 @@ if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_DOCS)
 endif()
 
 # perfetto
-rocprofiler_checkout_git_submodule(
-    RECURSIVE
-    RELATIVE_PATH external/perfetto
-    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}
-    TEST_FILE meson.build
-    REPO_URL https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/perfetto external/perfetto
-    REPO_BRANCH "v44.0")
-
-add_library(rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto-static-library STATIC)
-target_sources(
-    rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto-static-library
-    PRIVATE ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external/perfetto/sdk/perfetto.h
-            ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external/perfetto/sdk/perfetto.cc)
-target_include_directories(
-    rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto-static-library SYSTEM
-    INTERFACE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external/perfetto/sdk>)
-set_target_properties(
-    rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto-static-library
-    PROPERTIES POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON OUTPUT_NAME rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto)
-target_link_libraries(
-    rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto
-    INTERFACE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto-static-library>)
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TOOLS)
+    rocprofiler_checkout_git_submodule(
+        RECURSIVE
+        RELATIVE_PATH external/perfetto
+        WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}
+        TEST_FILE meson.build
+        REPO_URL https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/perfetto external/perfetto
+        REPO_BRANCH "v44.0")
+
+    add_library(rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto-static-library STATIC)
+    target_sources(
+        rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto-static-library
+        PRIVATE ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external/perfetto/sdk/perfetto.h
+                ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external/perfetto/sdk/perfetto.cc)
+    target_include_directories(
+        rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto-static-library SYSTEM
+        INTERFACE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external/perfetto/sdk>)
+    set_target_properties(
+        rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto-static-library
+        PROPERTIES POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON OUTPUT_NAME rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto)
+    target_link_libraries(
+        rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto
+        INTERFACE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:rocprofiler-sdk-perfetto-static-library>)
+endif()
 
 # ELFIO
 rocprofiler_checkout_git_submodule(
@@ -208,18 +210,22 @@ if(TARGET rocprofiler-sdk-elfio)
 endif()
 
 # OTF2
-add_subdirectory(otf2)
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TOOLS)
+    add_subdirectory(otf2)
+endif()
 
-rocprofiler_checkout_git_submodule(
-    RECURSIVE
-    RELATIVE_PATH external/json
-    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}
-    REPO_URL https://github.com/nlohmann/json.git
-    REPO_BRANCH "develop")
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TOOLS)
+    rocprofiler_checkout_git_submodule(
+        RECURSIVE
+        RELATIVE_PATH external/json
+        WORKING_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}
+        REPO_URL https://github.com/nlohmann/json.git
+        REPO_BRANCH "develop")
 
-add_subdirectory(json)
+    add_subdirectory(json)
 
-# target_link_libraries(rocprofiler-sdk-json INTERFACE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:json::json>)
-target_include_directories(
-    rocprofiler-sdk-json SYSTEM
-    INTERFACE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external/json/include>)
+    # target_link_libraries(rocprofiler-sdk-json INTERFACE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:json::json>)
+    target_include_directories(
+        rocprofiler-sdk-json SYSTEM
+        INTERFACE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/external/json/include>)
+endif()
diff --git a/source/CMakeLists.txt b/source/CMakeLists.txt
index ec8d12b38..2c4103113 100644
--- a/source/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/source/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ rocprofiler_activate_clang_tidy()
 
 add_subdirectory(include)
 add_subdirectory(lib)
-add_subdirectory(libexec)
-add_subdirectory(bin)
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TOOLS)
+    add_subdirectory(libexec)
+    add_subdirectory(bin)
+endif()
 add_subdirectory(docs)
 add_subdirectory(scripts)
diff --git a/source/docs/install/installation.rst b/source/docs/install/installation.rst
index 3507ec8d6..33340c335 100644
--- a/source/docs/install/installation.rst
+++ b/source/docs/install/installation.rst
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ Building ROCprofiler-SDK
     git clone https://github.com/ROCm/rocprofiler-sdk.git rocprofiler-sdk-source
     cmake                                         \
         -B rocprofiler-sdk-build                \
+        -D ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TOOLS=ON           \
         -D ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TESTS=ON           \
         -D ROCPROFILER_BUILD_SAMPLES=ON         \
         -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/rocm       \
@@ -95,4 +96,4 @@ To run the built tests, ``cd`` into the ``rocprofiler-sdk-build`` directory and
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    /usr/local/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
\ No newline at end of file
+    /usr/local/bin/python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
diff --git a/source/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/source/lib/CMakeLists.txt
index a5019423b..df33e176d 100644
--- a/source/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/source/lib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,14 +3,18 @@
 #
 set(CMAKE_INSTALL_DEFAULT_COMPONENT_NAME "core")
 add_subdirectory(common)
-add_subdirectory(output)
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TOOLS)
+    add_subdirectory(output)
+endif()
 add_subdirectory(rocprofiler-sdk)
-
-set(CMAKE_INSTALL_DEFAULT_COMPONENT_NAME "tools")
-add_subdirectory(rocprofiler-sdk-codeobj)
 add_subdirectory(rocprofiler-sdk-roctx)
-add_subdirectory(rocprofiler-sdk-att)
-add_subdirectory(rocprofiler-sdk-tool)
+
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TOOLS)
+    set(CMAKE_INSTALL_DEFAULT_COMPONENT_NAME "tools")
+    add_subdirectory(rocprofiler-sdk-codeobj)
+    add_subdirectory(rocprofiler-sdk-att)
+    add_subdirectory(rocprofiler-sdk-tool)
+endif()
 
 if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TESTS)
     add_subdirectory(tests)
diff --git a/source/lib/rocprofiler-sdk/counters/metrics.cpp b/source/lib/rocprofiler-sdk/counters/metrics.cpp
index cd533245a..ae5bc29dc 100644
--- a/source/lib/rocprofiler-sdk/counters/metrics.cpp
+++ b/source/lib/rocprofiler-sdk/counters/metrics.cpp
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include <dlfcn.h>  // for dladdr
 #include <cstdint>
 #include <cstdlib>
+#include <fstream>
 #include <memory>
 #include <vector>
 
diff --git a/source/libexec/rocprofiler-sdk/rocprofiler-avail/rocprofv3_avail.cpp b/source/libexec/rocprofiler-sdk/rocprofiler-avail/rocprofv3_avail.cpp
index b67b76a2b..7fd69b7f0 100644
--- a/source/libexec/rocprofiler-sdk/rocprofiler-avail/rocprofv3_avail.cpp
+++ b/source/libexec/rocprofiler-sdk/rocprofiler-avail/rocprofv3_avail.cpp
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <algorithm>
 #include <cstring>
+#include <deque>
 #include <fstream>
 #include <mutex>
 #include <unordered_map>