diff --git a/client/CMakeLists.txt b/client/CMakeLists.txt
index 84778b3e..5e0ad91a 100644
--- a/client/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/client/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ add_executable(traintastic-client
   gfx/common.qrc
   gfx/dark/dark.qrc
   gfx/light/light.qrc
-  ${TRANSLATION_FILES})
+)
+
+add_dependencies(traintastic-client traintastic-lang)
 
 add_definitions(-DQT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS)
 
diff --git a/server/CMakeLists.txt b/server/CMakeLists.txt
index e1f9d7a8..d2fefe43 100644
--- a/server/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/server/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -20,8 +20,11 @@ if(ENABLE_CLANG_TIDY)
   set(CMAKE_CXX_CLANG_TIDY clang-tidy -checks=-*,readability-*,-readability-braces-around-statements,-readability-implicit-bool-conversion,-readability-magic-numbers)
 endif()
 
-add_executable(traintastic-server src/main.cpp src/options.hpp ${TRANSLATION_FILES})
-add_executable(traintastic-server-test test/main.cpp ${TRANSLATION_FILES})
+add_executable(traintastic-server src/main.cpp src/options.hpp)
+add_executable(traintastic-server-test test/main.cpp)
+
+add_dependencies(traintastic-server traintastic-lang)
+add_dependencies(traintastic-server-test traintastic-lang)
 
 target_compile_definitions(traintastic-server-test PRIVATE -DTRAINTASTIC_TEST)
 
diff --git a/shared/translations/traintastic-lang.cmake b/shared/translations/traintastic-lang.cmake
index 4b3b5b35..76377474 100644
--- a/shared/translations/traintastic-lang.cmake
+++ b/shared/translations/traintastic-lang.cmake
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ find_package(Python3)
 file(GLOB TRANSLATION_FILES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/*.json")
 list(TRANSFORM TRANSLATION_FILES REPLACE "[.]json$" ".lang")
 
-add_custom_command(
-  OUTPUT ${TRANSLATION_FILES}
-  COMMAND Python3::Interpreter json2lang.py
+add_custom_target(
+  traintastic-lang ALL
+  Python3::Interpreter json2lang.py
+  COMMENT "Updating language files"
   WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}
-  DEPENDS ${TRANSLATION_SRC_FILES}
 )