diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 166e5a2..67a0382 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ option(BUILD_TESTING "build test" OFF) # The ctest variable for building tests
 
 if(${CPPAST_BUILD_TEST} OR ${BUILD_TESTING} OR (CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR STREQUAL CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR))
     set(build_test ON)
+    set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON) # for the self integration test
 else()
     set(build_test OFF)
 endif()
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index b83bf1e..fe00494 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ set(header
     ../include/cppast/cpp_class_template.hpp
     ../include/cppast/cpp_decltype_type.hpp
     ../include/cppast/cpp_entity.hpp
-    ../include/cppast/cpp_entity.hpp
     ../include/cppast/cpp_entity_container.hpp
     ../include/cppast/cpp_entity_index.hpp
     ../include/cppast/cpp_entity_kind.hpp
diff --git a/test/CMakeLists.txt b/test/CMakeLists.txt
index 0475d8d..f4ed9a8 100644
--- a/test/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/test/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -34,10 +34,18 @@ set(tests
         preprocessor.cpp
         visitor.cpp)
 
+# generate list of source files for the self parsing test
+get_target_property(files cppast SOURCES)
+file(WRITE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cppast_files.hpp "// list of cppast source file includes\n")
+foreach(file ${files})
+    file(APPEND ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cppast_files.hpp "\"${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../src/${file}\",\n")
+endforeach()
+
 add_executable(cppast_test test.cpp test_parser.hpp ${tests})
 target_include_directories(cppast_test PUBLIC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
 target_include_directories(cppast_test PRIVATE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/../src)
 target_link_libraries(cppast_test PUBLIC cppast)
+target_compile_definitions(cppast_test PUBLIC CPPAST_INTEGRATION_FILE="${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/integration.cpp")
 set_target_properties(cppast_test PROPERTIES CXX_STANDARD 11)
 
 enable_testing()
diff --git a/test/integration.cpp b/test/integration.cpp
index f20f091..b95a8ce 100644
--- a/test/integration.cpp
+++ b/test/integration.cpp
@@ -113,3 +113,19 @@ TEST_CASE("stdlib", "[!hide][integration]")
     resolve_includes(parser, file.value(), config);
     REQUIRE(!parser.error());
 }
+
+TEST_CASE("cppast", "[!hide][integration]")
+{
+    const char* files[] = {
+#include <cppast_files.hpp>
+    };
+
+    cpp_entity_index                    idx;
+    simple_file_parser<libclang_parser> parser(type_safe::ref(idx), default_logger());
+
+    libclang_compilation_database database("../");
+    libclang_compile_config       config(database, CPPAST_INTEGRATION_FILE);
+    parse_files(parser, files, config);
+
+    REQUIRE(!parser.error());
+}