diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index daefcf79fd3..dd4bf2a7bb9 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ add_subdirectory(mgmt/utils)
 add_subdirectory(mgmt/config)
 add_subdirectory(mgmt/rpc)
 add_subdirectory(src/traffic_server)
+add_subdirectory(src/traffic_ctl)
 add_subdirectory(src/tests)
 add_subdirectory(plugins)
 add_subdirectory(configs)
diff --git a/src/traffic_ctl/CMakeLists.txt b/src/traffic_ctl/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8ab0222cea7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/traffic_ctl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#######################
+#
+#  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license
+#  agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding
+#  copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+#  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.  You may obtain
+#  a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+#  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License
+#  is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
+#  or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
+#  the License.
+#
+#######################
+
+add_executable(traffic_ctl
+        traffic_ctl.cc
+        CtrlCommands.cc
+        CtrlPrinters.cc
+        FileConfigCommand.cc
+        ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/src/shared/rpc/IPCSocketClient.cc
+)
+
+target_include_directories(traffic_ctl PRIVATE
+        ${IOCORE_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+        ${PROXY_INCLUDE_DIRS}
+        ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/mgmt
+        ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/mgmt/utils
+        )
+target_link_libraries(traffic_ctl
+        tscore
+        yaml-cpp
+        libswoc
+        )
+
+install(TARGETS traffic_server)