diff --git a/cmake/rocprofiler_options.cmake b/cmake/rocprofiler_options.cmake
index 05b960694b..35862acdc4 100644
--- a/cmake/rocprofiler_options.cmake
+++ b/cmake/rocprofiler_options.cmake
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ rocprofiler_add_option(
 rocprofiler_add_option(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_FMT "Enable building fmt library internally" ON)
 rocprofiler_add_option(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_GLOG
                        "Enable building glog (Google logging) library internally" ON)
+rocprofiler_add_option(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_OPENMP_TESTS
+                       "Enable building openmp tests and samples" OFF ADVANCED)
 if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_TESTS)
     rocprofiler_add_option(
         ROCPROFILER_BUILD_GTEST
diff --git a/samples/CMakeLists.txt b/samples/CMakeLists.txt
index cc61579b8c..d833ae1bee 100644
--- a/samples/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/samples/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -33,4 +33,6 @@ add_subdirectory(code_object_isa_decode)
 add_subdirectory(advanced_thread_trace)
 add_subdirectory(external_correlation_id_request)
 add_subdirectory(pc_sampling)
-add_subdirectory(openmp_target)
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_OPENMP_TESTS)
+    add_subdirectory(openmp_target)
+endif()
diff --git a/tests/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
index c67a82cb20..e2d4704019 100644
--- a/tests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -62,7 +62,9 @@ add_subdirectory(pc_sampling)
 add_subdirectory(thread-trace)
 add_subdirectory(hip-graph-tracing)
 add_subdirectory(counter-collection)
-add_subdirectory(openmp-tools)
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_OPENMP_TESTS)
+    add_subdirectory(openmp-tools)
+endif()
 
 # rocprofv3 validation tests
 add_subdirectory(rocprofv3)
diff --git a/tests/bin/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/bin/CMakeLists.txt
index d1dab34b44..8ae854798c 100644
--- a/tests/bin/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/bin/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,9 @@ set(CMAKE_BUILD_RPATH
 # applications used by integration tests which DO link to rocprofiler-sdk-roctx
 add_subdirectory(reproducible-runtime)
 add_subdirectory(transpose)
-add_subdirectory(openmp)
+if(ROCPROFILER_BUILD_OPENMP_TESTS)
+    add_subdirectory(openmp)
+endif()
 
 set(CMAKE_BUILD_RPATH "\$ORIGIN:\$ORIGIN/../lib")