diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 37e266dc..8456cd1e 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "DRAMSys/library/src/common/third_party/tinyxml2"]
-	path = DRAMSys/library/src/common/third_party/tinyxml2
-	url = https://github.com/leethomason/tinyxml2.git
 [submodule "DRAMSys/library/src/common/third_party/DRAMPower"]
 	path = DRAMSys/library/src/common/third_party/DRAMPower
 	url = https://github.com/tukl-msd/DRAMPower.git
diff --git a/DRAMSys/library/CMakeLists.txt b/DRAMSys/library/CMakeLists.txt
index 7c0c990a..1b7ce7d4 100644
--- a/DRAMSys/library/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/DRAMSys/library/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ add_library(DRAMSysLibrary
     src/common/tlm2_base_protocol_checker.h
     src/common/TlmRecorder.cpp
     src/common/utils.cpp
-    src/common/third_party/tinyxml2/tinyxml2.cpp
     
     src/configuration/Configuration.cpp 
     src/configuration/ConfigurationLoader.cpp
diff --git a/DRAMSys/library/src/common/third_party/tinyxml2 b/DRAMSys/library/src/common/third_party/tinyxml2
deleted file mode 160000
index 78fca3db..00000000
--- a/DRAMSys/library/src/common/third_party/tinyxml2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 78fca3db835a5e2de1f3e90f5c6362dda750e3ac
diff --git a/DRAMSys/library/src/simulation/DRAMSys.cpp b/DRAMSys/library/src/simulation/DRAMSys.cpp
index 9885d382..33dad862 100644
--- a/DRAMSys/library/src/simulation/DRAMSys.cpp
+++ b/DRAMSys/library/src/simulation/DRAMSys.cpp
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
 
 #include "DRAMSys.h"
 #include "Setup.h"
-#include "../common/third_party/tinyxml2/tinyxml2.h"
 #include "../common/third_party/nlohmann/single_include/nlohmann/json.hpp"
 #include "../common/TlmRecorder.h"
 #include "../common/DebugManager.h"