diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindDiscount.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindDiscount.cmake
index 43eac0b24..583fb0598 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/FindDiscount.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/FindDiscount.cmake
@@ -1,36 +1,41 @@
 # - Find Discount
 # Find the discount markdown library.
 #
 # This module defines
 #  discount_FOUND - whether the discount library was found
 #  discount_LIBRARIES - the discount library
 #  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.
 
 
 if (discount_INCLUDE_DIR AND discount_LIBRARIES)
 
   # Already in cache
   set (discount_FOUND TRUE)
 
 else (discount_INCLUDE_DIR AND discount_LIBRARIES)
 
   find_library (discount_LIBRARIES
     NAMES markdown libmarkdown
   )
 
   find_path (discount_INCLUDE_DIR
     NAMES mkdio.h
   )
 
   include (FindPackageHandleStandardArgs)
   find_package_handle_standard_args (discount DEFAULT_MSG discount_LIBRARIES discount_INCLUDE_DIR)
 
 endif (discount_INCLUDE_DIR AND discount_LIBRARIES)
 
 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
index f5fa2eced..6e8b0f1a4 100644
--- a/generators/markdown/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/generators/markdown/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 remove_definitions(-DTRANSLATION_DOMAIN="okular")
 add_definitions(-DTRANSLATION_DOMAIN="okular_markdown")
 
 include_directories(
    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../..
 )
 
 
 ########### next target ###############
 
 set(okularGenerator_md_PART_SRCS
   converter.cpp
   generator_md.cpp
 )
 
 
 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} )
 install( PROGRAMS okularApplication_md.desktop org.kde.mobile.okular_md.desktop  DESTINATION  ${KDE_INSTALL_APPDIR} )
 install( FILES org.kde.okular-md.metainfo.xml DESTINATION ${KDE_INSTALL_METAINFODIR} )