diff --git a/backends/cadence/CMakeLists.txt b/backends/cadence/CMakeLists.txt
index d786142f085..773dd0e52d5 100644
--- a/backends/cadence/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/backends/cadence/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ if(NOT EXECUTORCH_ROOT)
 endif()
 
 include(${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/build/Utils.cmake)
-include(${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/build/Codegen.cmake)
 
 # Let files say "include <executorch/path/to/header.h>".
 set(_common_include_directories ${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/..)
@@ -30,54 +29,6 @@ if(EXECUTORCH_NNLIB_OPT)
   set(TARGET_DIR hifi)
   add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${TARGET_DIR}/third-party/nnlib)
 endif()
-set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)
-
-# Source root directory for executorch.
-if(NOT EXECUTORCH_ROOT)
-  set(EXECUTORCH_ROOT ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../..)
-endif()
-
-if(NOT PYTHON_EXECUTABLE)
-  resolve_python_executable()
-endif()
-
-set(_common_compile_options -Wno-deprecated-declarations -fPIC)
-
-# Find prebuilt libraries. executorch package should contain portable_ops_lib,
-# etdump, bundled_program.
-find_package(executorch CONFIG REQUIRED)
-target_link_options_shared_lib(executorch)
-target_link_options_shared_lib(portable_ops_lib)
-
-target_include_directories(executorch INTERFACE ${_common_include_directories})
-
-find_package(
-  gflags REQUIRED PATHS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/../../third-party
-)
-
-add_executable(cadence_runner cadence_runner/cadence_runner.cpp)
-target_compile_options(executorch INTERFACE -DET_EVENT_TRACER_ENABLED)
 
 add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${TARGET_DIR}/operators)
 add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${TARGET_DIR}/kernels)
-
-target_include_directories(
-  etdump INTERFACE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/../../sdk/include
-                   ${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/third-party/flatcc/include
-)
-
-target_include_directories(
-  cadence_runner PUBLIC ${ROOT_DIR}/.. ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}
-                        ${_common_include_directories}
-)
-
-target_link_libraries(
-  cadence_runner
-  executorch
-  gflags
-  etdump
-  extension_data_loader
-  bundled_program
-  cadence_ops_lib
-  flatccrt
-)
diff --git a/backends/cadence/build_cadence_xtensa.sh b/backends/cadence/build_cadence_xtensa.sh
index f96436e65d5..eebd0707d19 100644
--- a/backends/cadence/build_cadence_xtensa.sh
+++ b/backends/cadence/build_cadence_xtensa.sh
@@ -65,8 +65,11 @@ else
         -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_HOST_TARGETS=ON \
         -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_EXECUTOR_RUNNER=ON \
         -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_PTHREADPOOL=OFF \
-        -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_CADENCE=OFF \
+        -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_CPUINFO=OFF \
+        -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_FLATC=OFF \
+        -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_CADENCE=ON \
         -DFLATC_EXECUTABLE="$(which flatc)" \
+        -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_EXTENSION_RUNNER_UTIL=ON \
         -DEXECUTORCH_ENABLE_LOGGING=ON \
         -DEXECUTORCH_ENABLE_PROGRAM_VERIFICATION=ON \
         -DEXECUTORCH_USE_DL=OFF \
@@ -74,11 +77,7 @@ else
         -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_KERNELS_CUSTOM=OFF \
         -DPYTHON_EXECUTABLE=python3 \
         -DEXECUTORCH_NNLIB_OPT=ON \
-        -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_GFLAGS=ON \
         -DHAVE_FNMATCH_H=OFF \
-        -DEXECUTORCH_ENABLE_EVENT_TRACER=OFF \
-        -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_EXTENSION_RUNNER_UTIL=ON \
-        -DEXECUTORCH_BUILD_CPUINFO=OFF \
         -Bcmake-out
     cmake --build cmake-out --target install --config Release -j16
 fi
diff --git a/backends/cadence/hifi/kernels/CMakeLists.txt b/backends/cadence/hifi/kernels/CMakeLists.txt
index 15d1a4ddd52..d03bb1c01ef 100644
--- a/backends/cadence/hifi/kernels/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/backends/cadence/hifi/kernels/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ add_library(
   kernels.cpp
   ${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/backends/cadence/hifi/third-party/nnlib/matmul_asym8uxasym8u_asym8u.cpp
 )
+# Let files say "include <executorch/path/to/header.h>".
+set(_common_include_directories ${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/..)
 
 target_include_directories(
   cadence_kernels
@@ -19,6 +21,7 @@ target_include_directories(
     ${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/backends/cadence/hifi/third-party/nnlib/nnlib-hifi4/xa_nnlib/include/nnlib
     ${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/backends/cadence/hifi/third-party/nnlib/nnlib-hifi4/xa_nnlib/include
     ${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/backends/cadence/hifi/third-party/nnlib/nnlib-hifi4/xa_nnlib/algo/ndsp/hifi4/include/
+  ${_common_include_directories}
 )
 
 target_link_libraries(cadence_kernels PRIVATE xa_nnlib)
diff --git a/backends/cadence/hifi/operators/CMakeLists.txt b/backends/cadence/hifi/operators/CMakeLists.txt
index 8da6169cda1..78413ef312e 100644
--- a/backends/cadence/hifi/operators/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/backends/cadence/hifi/operators/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ set(_aten_ops__srcs
     "${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/kernels/portable/cpu/util/matmul_ops_util.cpp"
     "${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/kernels/portable/cpu/util/reduce_util.cpp"
     "${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/kernels/portable/cpu/util/repeat_util.cpp"
+    "${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/kernels/portable/cpu/util/slice_util.cpp"
     "${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/kernels/portable/cpu/op_add.cpp"
     "${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/kernels/portable/cpu/op_bmm.cpp"
     "${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/kernels/portable/cpu/op_cat.cpp"
diff --git a/backends/cadence/reference/kernels/CMakeLists.txt b/backends/cadence/reference/kernels/CMakeLists.txt
index fba66e9b27a..07394cbe834 100644
--- a/backends/cadence/reference/kernels/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/backends/cadence/reference/kernels/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,9 @@
 # lint_cmake: -linelength
 add_library(cadence_kernels kernels.cpp)
 
-target_include_directories(cadence_kernels PUBLIC .)
+# Let files say "include <executorch/path/to/header.h>".
+set(_common_include_directories ${EXECUTORCH_ROOT}/..)
+
+target_include_directories(cadence_kernels PUBLIC .
+                    ${_common_include_directories}
+)