diff --git a/test/CMakeLists.txt b/test/CMakeLists.txt
index 9fd4e6e84ea1a..fe3522f7d04fe 100644
--- a/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -32,17 +32,7 @@ endfunction()
 
 create_test_config()
 
-file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/functional)
-file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/fuzz)
-file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/util)
-
-file(GLOB_RECURSE functional_tests RELATIVE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} functional/*)
-foreach(script ${functional_tests} fuzz/test_runner.py util/rpcauth-test.py util/test_runner.py)
-  if(CMAKE_HOST_WIN32)
-    set(symlink)
-  else()
-    set(symlink SYMBOLIC)
-  endif()
-  file(CREATE_LINK ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/${script} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${script} COPY_ON_ERROR ${symlink})
-endforeach()
-unset(functional_tests)
+file(COPY functional util/rpcauth-test.py DESTINATION ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
+file(COPY fuzz/test_runner.py DESTINATION ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/fuzz)
+file(COPY util/rpcauth-test.py util/test_runner.py DESTINATION ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/util)
+file(COPY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/contrib/signet/miner DESTINATION ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/contrib/signet)
diff --git a/test/functional/tool_signet_miner.py b/test/functional/tool_signet_miner.py
index bdefb92ae6216..cb87ddf4b0a75 100755
--- a/test/functional/tool_signet_miner.py
+++ b/test/functional/tool_signet_miner.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def run_test(self):
         node.importprivkey(bytes_to_wif(CHALLENGE_PRIVATE_KEY))
 
         # generate block with signet miner tool
-        base_dir = self.config["environment"]["SRCDIR"]
+        base_dir = self.config["environment"]["BUILDDIR"]
         signet_miner_path = os.path.join(base_dir, "contrib", "signet", "miner")
         subprocess.run([
                 sys.executable,