diff --git a/samples/cpp/beam_search_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt b/samples/cpp/beam_search_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt
index 9ea4730528..9bf1a8aac8 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/beam_search_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/samples/cpp/beam_search_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Intel Corporation
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED PATHS
-    "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
-    ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED
+    HINTS
+        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
+        ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+    NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH
 )
 
 add_executable(beam_search_causal_lm beam_search_causal_lm.cpp)
diff --git a/samples/cpp/benchmark_genai/CMakeLists.txt b/samples/cpp/benchmark_genai/CMakeLists.txt
index 3a05c37d62..902a05eee6 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/benchmark_genai/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/samples/cpp/benchmark_genai/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Intel Corporation
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED PATHS
-    "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
-    ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED
+    PATHS
+        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
+        ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+    NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH
 )
 
 include(FetchContent)
diff --git a/samples/cpp/chat_sample/CMakeLists.txt b/samples/cpp/chat_sample/CMakeLists.txt
index 901f003d4c..69578dc86c 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/chat_sample/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/samples/cpp/chat_sample/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Intel Corporation
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED PATHS
-    "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
-    ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED
+    PATHS
+        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
+        ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+    NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH
 )
 
 add_executable(chat_sample chat_sample.cpp)
diff --git a/samples/cpp/greedy_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt b/samples/cpp/greedy_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt
index 409733bbc6..ff5151676f 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/greedy_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/samples/cpp/greedy_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Intel Corporation
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED PATHS
-    "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
-    ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED
+    PATHS
+        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
+        ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+    NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH
 )
 
 add_executable(greedy_causal_lm greedy_causal_lm.cpp)
diff --git a/samples/cpp/multinomial_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt b/samples/cpp/multinomial_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt
index 01b3bb3bb4..83b2335431 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/multinomial_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/samples/cpp/multinomial_causal_lm/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,11 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2023-2024 Intel Corporation
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 
-find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED PATHS
-    "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
-    ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED
+    PATHS
+        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
+        ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+    NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH
 )
 
 add_executable(multinomial_causal_lm multinomial_causal_lm.cpp)
diff --git a/samples/cpp/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm/CMakeLists.txt b/samples/cpp/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm/CMakeLists.txt
index 9b7a15131d..c899c6e47b 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/samples/cpp/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
 
 find_package(OpenVINO REQUIRED COMPONENTS Runtime Threading)
 
-find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED PATHS
-    "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
-    ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED
+    PATHS
+        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
+        ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+    NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH
 )
 
 add_executable(prompt_lookup_decoding_lm prompt_lookup_decoding_lm.cpp)
diff --git a/samples/cpp/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm.cpp b/samples/cpp/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm.cpp
index 3419f3221a..5e372a3f09 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm.cpp
+++ b/samples/cpp/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm/prompt_lookup_decoding_lm.cpp
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) try {
     ov::Tensor position_ids = model.get_tensor("position_ids");
     position_ids.set_shape(input_ids.get_shape());
     std::iota(position_ids.data<int64_t>(), position_ids.data<int64_t>() + position_ids.get_size(), 0);
-    uint64_t seq_len = input_ids.get_shape()[1];
+    size_t seq_len = input_ids.get_shape()[1];
 
     // set beam_idx for stateful model: no beam search is used and BATCH_SIZE = 1
     model.get_tensor("beam_idx").set_shape({BATCH_SIZE});
diff --git a/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding_lm/CMakeLists.txt b/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding_lm/CMakeLists.txt
index 1a9b02f1b2..078ac8bb52 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding_lm/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding_lm/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -3,9 +3,11 @@
 
 find_package(OpenVINO REQUIRED COMPONENTS Runtime Threading)
 
-find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED PATHS
-    "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
-    ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+find_package(OpenVINOGenAI REQUIRED
+    PATHS
+        "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}"  # Reuse the package from the build.
+        ${OpenVINO_DIR}  # GenAI may be installed alogside OpenVINO.
+    NO_CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH
 )
 
 add_executable(speculative_decoding_lm speculative_decoding_lm.cpp)
diff --git a/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding_lm/speculative_decoding_lm.cpp b/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding_lm/speculative_decoding_lm.cpp
index de2d2f8837..f26cb6c7c4 100644
--- a/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding_lm/speculative_decoding_lm.cpp
+++ b/samples/cpp/speculative_decoding_lm/speculative_decoding_lm.cpp
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[]) try {
 
     ov::InferRequest draft_model = core.compile_model(ov_draft_model, "CPU").create_infer_request();
 
-    uint64_t seq_len = input_ids.get_shape()[1];
+    size_t seq_len = input_ids.get_shape()[1];
 
     // main model (which is bigger, more accurate but slower)
     std::shared_ptr<ov::Model> ov_main_model = core.read_model(std::string{argv[2]} + "/openvino_model.xml");
diff --git a/src/cpp/CMakeLists.txt b/src/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
index 56e19fbd9f..626c4a7903 100644
--- a/src/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/cpp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ function(ov_genai_build_jinja2cpp)
         set(JINJA2CPP_STRICT_WARNINGS OFF CACHE BOOL "")
         set(JINJA2CPP_PIC ON CACHE BOOL "")
 
+        # TMP WA:
+        set(RapidJSON_DIR "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/_deps/rapidjson-build")
+
         # options for Jinja2Cpp dependencies
         option(RAPIDJSON_BUILD_DOC "Build rapidjson documentation." OFF)