diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e4ea71c..df37028 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -517,8 +517,9 @@ else(NOT enable-pkgconfig)
     find_package ( PkgConfig REQUIRED )
 
     # Mandatory libraries: glib and gthread
-    pkg_check_modules ( GLIB REQUIRED glib-2.0>=2.6.5 gthread-2.0>=2.6.5 )
+    pkg_check_modules ( GLIB IMPORTED_TARGET REQUIRED glib-2.0>=2.6.5 gthread-2.0>=2.6.5 )
     list( APPEND PC_REQUIRES_PRIV "glib-2.0" "gthread-2.0")
+    set(GLIB_LIBRARIES PkgConfig::GLIB)
 
     if ( GLIB_glib-2.0_VERSION AND GLIB_glib-2.0_VERSION VERSION_LESS "2.26.0" )
         message ( WARNING "Your version of glib is very old. This may cause problems with fluidsynth's sample cache on Windows. Consider updating to glib 2.26 or newer!" )