--- a/tools/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tools/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,6 +3,15 @@
 
 # Generated from tools.pro.
 
+# Red Bear: skip all tools during cross-compilation because the shared host
+# bootstrap does not include every qtdeclarative tool binary (qmlprofiler,
+# qmlpreview, qmlscene, etc).  The libraries do not require these tools at
+# configure time; only the tools/ subdirectory tries to find them as host
+# binaries via qt_internal_add_tool().
+if(CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
+    return()
+endif()
+
 add_subdirectory(qmldom)
 if(QT_FEATURE_commandlineparser)
     add_subdirectory(qmllint)