diff --git a/liblangutil/EVMVersion.cpp b/liblangutil/EVMVersion.cpp
index 7b34fe7d2..24ef0673d 100644
--- a/liblangutil/EVMVersion.cpp
+++ b/liblangutil/EVMVersion.cpp
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <liblangutil/EVMVersion.h>
+#include <libevmasm/Instruction.h>
 
 using namespace solidity;
 using namespace solidity::evmasm;
diff --git a/liblangutil/EVMVersion.h b/liblangutil/EVMVersion.h
index c68441f01..268df7d9d 100644
--- a/liblangutil/EVMVersion.h
+++ b/liblangutil/EVMVersion.h
@@ -21,14 +21,18 @@
 
 #pragma once
 
-#include <libevmasm/Instruction.h>
-
 #include <optional>
 #include <string>
 
 #include <boost/operators.hpp>
 
 
+namespace solidity::evmasm
+{
+/// Virtual machine bytecode instruction. Forward declared from libevmasm/Instruction.h
+enum class Instruction: uint8_t;
+}
+
 namespace solidity::langutil
 {
 
diff --git a/libyul/AsmAnalysis.cpp b/libyul/AsmAnalysis.cpp
index c38c0ba8e..2e9f8f1d3 100644
--- a/libyul/AsmAnalysis.cpp
+++ b/libyul/AsmAnalysis.cpp
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
 #include <libsolutil/StringUtils.h>
 #include <libsolutil/Visitor.h>
 
+#include <libevmasm/Instruction.h>
+
 #include <boost/algorithm/string.hpp>
 
 #include <fmt/format.h>
diff --git a/libyul/backends/evm/EVMCodeTransform.cpp b/libyul/backends/evm/EVMCodeTransform.cpp
index 7c9bf05cf..d5e25a1d1 100644
--- a/libyul/backends/evm/EVMCodeTransform.cpp
+++ b/libyul/backends/evm/EVMCodeTransform.cpp
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
 
 #include <liblangutil/Exceptions.h>
 
+#include <libevmasm/Instruction.h>
+
 #include <range/v3/view/reverse.hpp>
 
 #include <range/v3/algorithm/max.hpp>
diff --git a/libyul/backends/evm/OptimizedEVMCodeTransform.cpp b/libyul/backends/evm/OptimizedEVMCodeTransform.cpp
index db73ba2a7..2fa99ccb2 100644
--- a/libyul/backends/evm/OptimizedEVMCodeTransform.cpp
+++ b/libyul/backends/evm/OptimizedEVMCodeTransform.cpp
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 
 #include <libyul/Utilities.h>
 
+#include <libevmasm/Instruction.h>
+
 #include <libsolutil/Visitor.h>
 #include <libsolutil/cxx20.h>
 
diff --git a/libyul/optimiser/ReasoningBasedSimplifier.cpp b/libyul/optimiser/ReasoningBasedSimplifier.cpp
index af39978ed..24882d84e 100644
--- a/libyul/optimiser/ReasoningBasedSimplifier.cpp
+++ b/libyul/optimiser/ReasoningBasedSimplifier.cpp
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@
 
 #include <libsolutil/CommonData.h>
 
+#include <libevmasm/Instruction.h>
+
 #include <utility>
 #include <memory>