diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index ab38f31f3..e69de29bb 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "external/pugixml"]
-	path = external/pugixml
-	url = https://github.com/zeux/pugixml.git
diff --git a/external/pugixml b/external/pugixml
deleted file mode 160000
index d2deb420b..000000000
--- a/external/pugixml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit d2deb420bc70369faa12785df2b5dd4d390e523d