diff --git a/ggml/CMakeLists.txt b/ggml/CMakeLists.txt
index 7fe1661bb..357e7e51e 100644
--- a/ggml/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/ggml/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -129,7 +129,6 @@ option(GGML_CUDA_NO_VMM                     "ggml: do not try to use CUDA VMM"
 option(GGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS              "ggml: compile all quants for FlashAttention"     OFF)
 option(GGML_CUDA_USE_GRAPHS                 "ggml: use CUDA graphs (llama.cpp only)"          OFF)
 
-option(GGML_CURL                            "ggml: use libcurl to download model from an URL" OFF)
 option(GGML_HIPBLAS                         "ggml: use hipBLAS"                               OFF)
 option(GGML_HIP_UMA                         "ggml: use HIP unified memory architecture"       OFF)
 option(GGML_VULKAN                          "ggml: use Vulkan"                                OFF)