diff --git a/overlays/cross-compilation/default.nix b/overlays/cross-compilation/default.nix
index 899ba8f9c..abd05c1ff 100644
--- a/overlays/cross-compilation/default.nix
+++ b/overlays/cross-compilation/default.nix
@@ -9,9 +9,5 @@
   jbig2dec = import ./jbig2dec {inherit prev;};
   pipewire = import ./pipewire {inherit prev;};
 
-  # libck is dependency of sysbench
-  libck = import ./libck {inherit prev;};
-  sysbench = import ./sysbench {inherit final prev;};
-
   qemu = import ./qemu {inherit prev;};
 })
diff --git a/overlays/cross-compilation/sysbench/default.nix b/overlays/cross-compilation/sysbench/default.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 39ed5606d..000000000
--- a/overlays/cross-compilation/sysbench/default.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright 2022-2024 TII (SSRC) and the Ghaf contributors
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
-#
-# Sysbench cross-compilation fixes
-#
-{
-  final,
-  prev,
-}:
-prev.sysbench.overrideAttrs (old: {
-  configureFlags = [
-    "--with-system-luajit"
-    "--with-system-ck"
-    "--with-mysql-includes=${prev.lib.getDev final.libmysqlclient}/include/mysql"
-    "--with-mysql-libs=${final.libmysqlclient}/lib/mysql"
-  ];
-  buildInputs = old.buildInputs ++ [final.libck];
-  depsBuildBuild = [final.pkg-config];
-})