diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindDiscount.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindDiscount.cmake
--- a/cmake/modules/FindDiscount.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/FindDiscount.cmake
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #  discount_INCLUDE_DIR - the include path of the discount library
 
 # Copyright (c) 2017, Julian Wolff, <wolff@julianwolff.de>
+# Copyright (c) 2018, Sune Vuorela, <sune@kde.org>
 #
 # Redistribution and use is allowed according to the terms of the BSD license.
 # For details see the accompanying COPYING-CMAKE-SCRIPTS file.
@@ -34,3 +35,7 @@
 
 mark_as_advanced(discount_INCLUDE_DIR discount_LIBRARIES)
 
+if (discount_FOUND)
+   add_library(discount::Lib UNKNOWN IMPORTED)
+   set_target_properties(discount::Lib PROPERTIES INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES ${discount_INCLUDE_DIR} IMPORTED_LOCATION ${discount_LIBRARIES})
+endif()
diff --git a/generators/markdown/CMakeLists.txt b/generators/markdown/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/generators/markdown/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/generators/markdown/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 okular_add_generator(okularGenerator_md ${okularGenerator_md_PART_SRCS})
 
-target_link_libraries(okularGenerator_md okularcore KF5::I18n KF5::KIOCore ${discount_LIBRARIES})
+target_link_libraries(okularGenerator_md PRIVATE okularcore KF5::I18n KF5::KIOCore discount::Lib)
 
 ########### install files ###############
 install( FILES okularMd.desktop  DESTINATION  ${KDE_INSTALL_KSERVICES5DIR} )