diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 4ef68c7f1c..475f02b66a 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -2097,8 +2097,6 @@ module_additional_kwargs = {
 
 # systemd-analyze requires 'libcore'
 subdir('src/core')
-# systemd-journal-remote requires 'libjournal_core'
-subdir('src/journal')
 # systemd-networkd requires 'libsystemd_network'
 subdir('src/libsystemd-network')
 # hwdb requires 'udev_link_with' and 'udev_rpath'
@@ -2139,6 +2137,7 @@ subdir('src/id128')
 subdir('src/import')
 subdir('src/initctl')
 subdir('src/integritysetup')
+subdir('src/journal')
 subdir('src/journal-remote')
 subdir('src/kernel-install')
 subdir('src/locale')
diff --git a/src/journal-remote/journal-remote-parse.c b/src/journal-remote/journal-remote-parse.c
index 26e2009e14..e23012c472 100644
--- a/src/journal-remote/journal-remote-parse.c
+++ b/src/journal-remote/journal-remote-parse.c
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 #include "alloc-util.h"
 #include "fd-util.h"
 #include "journal-remote-parse.h"
-#include "journald-native.h"
 #include "parse-util.h"
 #include "string-util.h"
 
diff --git a/src/journal-remote/journal-remote.c b/src/journal-remote/journal-remote.c
index 06be2d08e2..79010d0482 100644
--- a/src/journal-remote/journal-remote.c
+++ b/src/journal-remote/journal-remote.c
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@
 #include "journal-file-util.h"
 #include "journal-remote-write.h"
 #include "journal-remote.h"
-#include "journald-native.h"
 #include "macro.h"
 #include "parse-util.h"
 #include "parse-helpers.h"
diff --git a/src/journal-remote/meson.build b/src/journal-remote/meson.build
index fe766dbb01..4251624864 100644
--- a/src/journal-remote/meson.build
+++ b/src/journal-remote/meson.build
@@ -20,8 +20,7 @@ endif
 libsystemd_journal_remote = static_library(
         'systemd-journal-remote',
         libsystemd_journal_remote_sources,
-        include_directories : journal_includes,
-        link_with : libjournal_core,
+        include_directories : includes,
         dependencies : [libgnutls,
                         liblz4,
                         libmicrohttpd,
@@ -64,7 +63,6 @@ executables += [
                         'HAVE_MICROHTTPD',
                 ],
                 'sources' : systemd_journal_remote_sources,
-                'include_directories' : journal_includes,
                 'link_with' : [
                         libshared,
                         libsystemd_journal_remote,
@@ -87,7 +85,6 @@ executables += [
                         libshared,
                         libsystemd_journal_remote,
                 ],
-                'include_directories' : journal_includes,
         },
 ]