diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index dca91da26..246cb50be 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -73,9 +73,19 @@ endif()
 ### Enter subdirectories
 
 # VCGLib -- required
-if(NOT VCGDIR)
+if (VCGDIR) # VCGDIR exists - using custom user vcglib path
+	if(EXISTS ${VCGDIR})
+		add_subdirectory(${VCGDIR} {CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/vcglib)
+		message(STATUS "- VCGLib - using custom VCGDIR path library")
+	else()
+		set(VCGDIR NOTFOUND)
+	endif()
+else()
 	get_filename_component(VCGDIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/vcglib" ABSOLUTE)
-	if(NOT EXISTS ${VCGDIR})
+	if(EXISTS ${VCGDIR})
+		add_subdirectory(${VCGDIR})
+		message(STATUS "- VCGLib - using using bundled source")
+	else()
 		set(VCGDIR NOTFOUND)
 	endif()
 endif()
diff --git a/src/common/CMakeLists.txt b/src/common/CMakeLists.txt
index 7254ec488..76ae187da 100644
--- a/src/common/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/common/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -122,8 +122,6 @@ target_include_directories(meshlab-common
 	PRIVATE
 		${EXTERNAL_DIR}/easyexif/
 	PUBLIC
-		${VCGDIR}
-		${EIGEN_INCLUDE_DIRS}
 		${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/..)
 
 target_link_libraries(
@@ -134,6 +132,7 @@ target_link_libraries(
 		Qt5::Widgets
 		Qt5::Xml
 		Qt5::Network
+		vcglib
 		external-glew
 )
 
diff --git a/src/external/eigen.cmake b/src/external/eigen.cmake
deleted file mode 100644
index 19d653801..000000000
--- a/src/external/eigen.cmake
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2019, 2020, Collabora, Ltd.
-# Copyright 2019, 2020, Visual Computing Lab, ISTI - Italian National Research Council
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSL-1.0
-
-option(ALLOW_BUNDLED_EIGEN "Allow use of bundled Eigen source" ON)
-option(ALLOW_SYSTEM_EIGEN "Allow use of system-provided Eigen" ON)
-
-set(EIGEN_DIR ${VCGDIR}/eigenlib)
-
-if(ALLOW_SYSTEM_EIGEN AND EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR)
-	message(STATUS "- Eigen - using system-provided library")
-	set(EIGEN_INCLUDE_DIRS ${EIGEN3_INCLUDE_DIR})
-elseif(ALLOW_BUNDLED_EIGEN AND EXISTS "${EIGEN_DIR}/Eigen/Eigen")
-	message(STATUS "- Eigen - using bundled source")
-	set(EIGEN_INCLUDE_DIRS ${EIGEN_DIR})
-else()
-	message(
-		FATAL_ERROR
-			"Eigen is required - at least one of ALLOW_SYSTEM_EIGEN or ALLOW_BUNDLED_EIGEN must be enabled and found.")
-endif()
diff --git a/src/external/external_common.cmake b/src/external/external_common.cmake
index bb5cb0eb0..eae693393 100644
--- a/src/external/external_common.cmake
+++ b/src/external/external_common.cmake
@@ -12,8 +12,5 @@ if(BUILD_BUNDLED_SOURCES_WITHOUT_WARNINGS)
 	endif()
 endif()
 
-# Eigen3 - required
-include(${EXTERNAL_DIR}/eigen.cmake)
-
 # GLEW - required
 include(${EXTERNAL_DIR}/glew.cmake)
diff --git a/src/vcglib b/src/vcglib
index ea276afef..7efd90dc0 160000
--- a/src/vcglib
+++ b/src/vcglib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit ea276afef7233f4ae32af2cc0b30074853c98b23
+Subproject commit 7efd90dc06e29b4a6066f29b4d3f168ae6c68e12