diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 506e5aa0..a044596d 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -419,11 +419,6 @@ qtTestRunnerDependencies = dependency('qt6', version : minVersionOfQt, modules:
 # For Boost, per https://mesonbuild.com/Dependencies.html#boost, we only need to supply module names for libraries we
 # need to link against.  For the header-only Boost libraries, the 'boost' dependency suffices.
 boostModules = []
-if host_machine.system() == 'linux'
-   boostModules += 'stacktrace_backtrace'
-   add_global_arguments('-DBOOST_STACKTRACE_LINK', language : 'cpp')
-   add_global_arguments('-DBOOST_STACKTRACE_USE_BACKTRACE', language : 'cpp')
-endif
 boostDependency = dependency('boost',
                              version : '>=1.79.0',
                              modules : boostModules,
@@ -479,14 +474,6 @@ if host_machine.system() != 'windows'
    endif
 endif
 
-# Note that, unlike, say, the parameters to include_directories(), the dirs argument to find_library() must be absolute
-# paths
-libbacktraceDir = join_paths(meson.project_source_root(), 'third-party/libbacktrace/.libs')
-backtraceDependency = compiler.find_library('backtrace',
-                                            required : true,
-                                            static : true,
-                                            dirs : [libbacktraceDir])
-
 #======================================== Find the other libraries we depend on ========================================
 #
 # See https://mesonbuild.com/Reference-manual_returned_dep.html for what info we can pull from a dependency object
@@ -537,7 +524,6 @@ message('OpenSSL Library:', openSslDependency.name(), 'found =', openSslDependen
 
 #==================================================== Other headers ====================================================
 # Other directories to search in for headers.  Meson will barf an error if any of these directories does not exist.
-includeDirs = include_directories('src', 'third-party/valijson/include', 'third-party/libbacktrace')
 
 
 #=======================================================================================================================
@@ -1311,8 +1297,7 @@ commonDependencies = [qtCommonDependencies,
                       xalanDependency,
                       boostDependency,
                       dlDependency,
-                      openSslDependency, # This isn't strictly needed for the testRunner, but no harm comes from including it
-                      backtraceDependency]
+                      openSslDependency] # This isn't strictly needed for the testRunner, but no harm comes from including it
 mainExeDependencies = commonDependencies + qtMainExeDependencies
 testRunnerDependencies = commonDependencies + qtTestRunnerDependencies