diff --git a/cmake/Modules/QbtTranslations.cmake b/cmake/Modules/QbtTranslations.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..71966fa7d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/Modules/QbtTranslations.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# macros to handle translation files
+
+# qbt_add_translations(<target> QRC_FILE <filename> TS_FILES <filenames>)
+# handles out of source builds for Qt resource files that include translations
+# The function generates translations out of the supplied list of .ts files in the build directory,
+# copies the .qrc file there, calls qt5_add_resources() adds its output to the target sources list.
+function(qbt_add_translations _target)
+    set(oneValueArgs QRC_FILE)
+    set(multiValueArgs TS_FILES)
+    cmake_parse_arguments(QBT_TR "" "${oneValueArgs}" "${multiValueArgs}" ${ARGN})
+
+    get_target_property(_binaryDir ${_target} BINARY_DIR)
+
+    if (NOT QBT_TR_QRC_FILE)
+        message(FATAL_ERROR "QRC file is empty")
+    endif()
+    if (NOT QBT_TR_TS_FILES)
+        message(FATAL_ERROR "TS_FILES files are empty")
+    endif()
+
+    if(IS_ABSOLUTE "${QBT_TR_QRC_FILE}")
+        file(RELATIVE_PATH _qrcToTs "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}" "${QBT_TR_QRC_FILE}")
+    else()
+        set(_qrcToTs "${QBT_TR_QRC_FILE}")
+    endif()
+
+    get_filename_component(_qrcToTsDir "${_qrcToTs}" DIRECTORY)
+
+    get_filename_component(_qmFilesBinaryDir "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${_qrcToTsDir}" ABSOLUTE)
+    # to make qt5_add_translation() work as we need
+    set_source_files_properties(${QBT_TR_TS_FILES} PROPERTIES OUTPUT_LOCATION "${_qmFilesBinaryDir}")
+    qt5_add_translation(_qmFiles ${QBT_TR_TS_FILES})
+
+    set(_qrc_dest_dir "${_binaryDir}/${_qrcToTsDir}")
+    set(_qrc_dest_file "${_binaryDir}/${QBT_TR_QRC_FILE}")
+
+    message(STATUS "copying ${QBT_TR_QRC_FILE} to ${_qrc_dest_dir}")
+    file(COPY ${QBT_TR_QRC_FILE} DESTINATION ${_qrc_dest_dir})
+
+    set_source_files_properties("${_qrc_dest_file}" PROPERTIES
+        GENERATED True
+        OBJECT_DEPENDS "${_qmFiles}")
+
+    # With AUTORCC enabled rcc is ran by cmake before language files are generated,
+    # and thus we call rcc explicitly
+    qt5_add_resources(_resources "${_qrc_dest_file}")
+    target_sources(${_target} PRIVATE "${_resources}")
+endfunction()
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 71435f360..c72229e1f 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ if (Boost_VERSION VERSION_LESS 106000)
     add_definitions(-DBOOST_NO_CXX11_RVALUE_REFERENCES)
 endif()
 
-find_package(Qt5 ${requiredQtVersion} REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core Network Xml)
+find_package(Qt5 ${requiredQtVersion} REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core Network Xml LinguistTools)
 find_package(Qt5Widgets ${requiredQtVersion})
 if (Qt5Widgets_FOUND)
     find_package(Qt5DBus ${requiredQtVersion})
diff --git a/src/app/CMakeLists.txt b/src/app/CMakeLists.txt
index 3d397804a..4079dfe93 100644
--- a/src/app/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/app/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,29 +23,19 @@ set_target_properties(qBittorrent
 )
 
 # translations
-file(GLOB QBT_TS_FILES ../lang/*.ts)
-get_filename_component(QBT_QM_FILES_BINARY_DIR "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/../lang" ABSOLUTE)
-set_source_files_properties(${QBT_TS_FILES} PROPERTIES OUTPUT_LOCATION "${QBT_QM_FILES_BINARY_DIR}")
-
-find_package(Qt5 COMPONENTS LinguistTools REQUIRED)
-qt5_add_translation(QBT_QM_FILES ${QBT_TS_FILES})
-
-get_filename_component(_lang_qrc_src "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../lang/lang.qrc" ABSOLUTE)
-get_filename_component(_lang_qrc_dst "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/../lang/lang.qrc" ABSOLUTE)
-get_filename_component(_lang_qrc_dst_dir "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/../lang" ABSOLUTE)
+include(QbtTranslations)
 
-message(STATUS "copying ${_lang_qrc_src} -> ${_lang_qrc_dst}")
-file(COPY ${_lang_qrc_src} DESTINATION ${_lang_qrc_dst_dir})
+file(GLOB QBT_TS_FILES ../lang/*.ts)
+qbt_add_translations(qBittorrent QRC_FILE "../lang/lang.qrc" TS_FILES ${QBT_TS_FILES})
 
-set_source_files_properties("${_lang_qrc_dst}" PROPERTIES GENERATED True)
-foreach(qm_file ${QBT_QM_FILES})
-    set_source_files_properties("${_lang_qrc_dst}" PROPERTIES OBJECT_DEPENDS ${qm_file})
-endforeach()
+if (WEBUI)
+    file(GLOB QBT_WEBUI_TS_FILES ../webui/www/translations/*.ts)
+    qbt_add_translations(qBittorrent QRC_FILE "../webui/www/translations/webui_translations.qrc" TS_FILES ${QBT_WEBUI_TS_FILES})
+endif()
 
 set(QBT_APP_RESOURCES
 ../icons/icons.qrc
 ../searchengine/searchengine.qrc
-"${_lang_qrc_dst}"
 )
 
 # With AUTORCC rcc is ran by cmake before language files are generated,
diff --git a/src/webui/webui.pri b/src/webui/webui.pri
index bdf4aede3..73a146005 100644
--- a/src/webui/webui.pri
+++ b/src/webui/webui.pri
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ SOURCES += \
     $$PWD/webapplication.cpp \
     $$PWD/webui.cpp
 
-RESOURCES += $$PWD/www/webui.qrc
+RESOURCES += $$PWD/www/webui.qrc $$PWD/www/translations/webui_translations.qrc
 
 # WebUI Translation
 isEmpty(QMAKE_LRELEASE) {
diff --git a/src/webui/www/translations/webui_translations.qrc b/src/webui/www/translations/webui_translations.qrc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..005f87246
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/webui/www/translations/webui_translations.qrc
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+<RCC>
+    <qresource prefix="/www/translations">
+        <file>webui_ar.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_be.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_bg.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_ca.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_cs.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_da.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_de.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_el.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_en.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_en_AU.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_en_GB.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_eo.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_es.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_eu.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_fi.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_fr.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_gl.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_he.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_hi_IN.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_hr.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_hu.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_hy.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_id.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_is.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_it.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_ja.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_ka.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_ko.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_lt.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_lv_LV.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_ms_MY.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_nb.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_nl.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_oc.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_pl.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_pt_BR.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_pt_PT.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_ro.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_ru.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_sk.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_sl.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_sr.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_sv.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_tr.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_uk.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_uz@Latn.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_vi.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_zh.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_zh_HK.qm</file>
+        <file>webui_zh_TW.qm</file>
+    </qresource>
+</RCC>
diff --git a/src/webui/www/webui.qrc b/src/webui/www/webui.qrc
index 572d352e6..6fc7a9670 100644
--- a/src/webui/www/webui.qrc
+++ b/src/webui/www/webui.qrc
@@ -45,55 +45,5 @@
         <file>public/css/login.css</file>
         <file>public/login.html</file>
         <file>public/scripts/lib/mootools-1.2-core-yc.js</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_ar.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_be.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_bg.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_ca.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_cs.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_da.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_de.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_el.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_en.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_en_AU.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_en_GB.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_eo.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_es.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_eu.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_fi.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_fr.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_gl.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_he.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_hi_IN.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_hr.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_hu.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_hy.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_id.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_is.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_it.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_ja.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_ka.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_ko.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_lt.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_lv_LV.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_ms_MY.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_nb.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_nl.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_oc.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_pl.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_pt_BR.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_pt_PT.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_ro.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_ru.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_sk.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_sl.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_sr.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_sv.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_tr.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_uk.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_uz@Latn.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_vi.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_zh.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_zh_HK.qm</file>
-        <file>translations/webui_zh_TW.qm</file>
     </qresource>
 </RCC>