diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4bc6072..930bd22 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -32,15 +32,15 @@ set(CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake" ${CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH}
 include(SetBuildParallelLevel)
 include(SetHardwareArch)
 
-if (ENABLE_LUAJIT_RANDOM_RA AND NOT USE_LUAJIT)
+if (ENABLE_LUAJIT_RANDOM_RA AND NOT IS_LUAJIT)
   message(FATAL_ERROR "Option ENABLE_LUAJIT_RANDOM_RA is LuaJIT-specific.")
-endif (ENABLE_LUAJIT_RANDOM_RA AND NOT USE_LUAJIT)
+endif (ENABLE_LUAJIT_RANDOM_RA AND NOT IS_LUAJIT)
 
 if (USE_LUA AND NOT LUA_VERSION)
   set(LUA_VERSION "master")
 endif()
 
-if (USE_LUAJIT AND NOT LUA_VERSION)
+if (IS_LUAJIT AND NOT LUA_VERSION)
   set(LUA_VERSION "v2.1")
 endif()
 
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ if (USE_LUA)
 elseif (USE_LUAJIT)
   include(BuildLuaJIT)
   build_luajit(${LUA_VERSION})
+  set(IS_LUAJIT TRUE)
 elseif (LUA_INCLUDE_DIR AND LUA_LIBRARIES AND LUA_EXECUTABLE AND LUA_VERSION_STRING)
   message(STATUS "Lua library passed outside:")
   message(STATUS "LUA_INCLUDE_DIR: ${LUA_INCLUDE_DIR}")
diff --git a/tests/capi/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/capi/CMakeLists.txt
index 8dcfd4d..00724bd 100644
--- a/tests/capi/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/capi/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -74,10 +74,10 @@ function(create_test)
   # add_dependencies(${test_name} ${LUA_TARGET})
   string(REPLACE "_test" "" test_prefix ${test_name})
   set(LIBFUZZER_OPTS "${LIBFUZZER_OPTS} -artifact_prefix=${test_name}_")
-  if (USE_LUAJIT AND (${test_name} STREQUAL "lua_dump_test"))
+  if (IS_LUAJIT AND (${test_name} STREQUAL "lua_dump_test"))
     set(LIBFUZZER_OPTS "${LIBFUZZER_OPTS} -only_ascii=1")
   endif ()
-  if (USE_LUAJIT AND (${test_name} STREQUAL "lua_load_test"))
+  if (IS_LUAJIT AND (${test_name} STREQUAL "lua_load_test"))
     set(LIBFUZZER_OPTS "${LIBFUZZER_OPTS} -only_ascii=1")
   endif ()
   set(dict_path ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/corpus/${test_name}.dict)
@@ -101,9 +101,9 @@ function(create_test)
     LABELS capi
   )
 
-  if (USE_LUAJIT)
+  if (IS_LUAJIT)
     target_compile_definitions(${test_name} PUBLIC LUAJIT)
-  endif (USE_LUAJIT)
+  endif (IS_LUAJIT)
 endfunction()
 
 # These Lua C functions are unsupported by LuaJIT.
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ list(APPEND LUAJIT_BLACKLIST_TESTS "luaL_loadstring_test")
 file(GLOB tests LIST_DIRECTORIES false ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} *.c *.cc)
 foreach(filename ${tests})
   get_filename_component(test_name ${filename} NAME_WE)
-  if (USE_LUAJIT AND (${test_name} IN_LIST LUAJIT_BLACKLIST_TESTS))
+  if (IS_LUAJIT AND (${test_name} IN_LIST LUAJIT_BLACKLIST_TESTS))
     continue()
   endif ()
   if ((${test_name} IN_LIST BLACKLIST_TESTS))
@@ -134,6 +134,6 @@ endforeach()
 
 include(ProtobufMutator)
 add_subdirectory(luaL_loadbuffer_proto)
-if(USE_LUAJIT)
+if(IS_LUAJIT)
   add_subdirectory(ffi_cdef_proto)
 endif ()