diff --git a/plugins/zynaddsubfx/CMakeLists.txt b/plugins/zynaddsubfx/CMakeLists.txt
index 3ac4f8489..f4064886b 100644
--- a/plugins/zynaddsubfx/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/plugins/zynaddsubfx/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ ELSE(LMMS_BUILD_WIN32)
 	INSTALL(TARGETS ZynAddSubFxCore LIBRARY DESTINATION "${PLUGIN_DIR}")
 ENDIF(LMMS_BUILD_WIN32)
 
+LINK_DIRECTORIES("${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/..")
 IF(LMMS_BUILD_LINUX)
 	LINK_LIBRARIES(-Wl,--enable-new-dtags)
 	SET(CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH TRUE)
@@ -148,7 +149,7 @@ ELSE()
 	SET(CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH "${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${PLUGIN_DIR}")
 ENDIF()
 BUILD_PLUGIN(zynaddsubfx ZynAddSubFx.cpp ZynAddSubFx.h MOCFILES ZynAddSubFx.h EMBEDDED_RESOURCES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/*.png")
-TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(zynaddsubfx -L.. -lZynAddSubFxCore)
+TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(zynaddsubfx -lZynAddSubFxCore)
 ADD_DEPENDENCIES(zynaddsubfx ZynAddSubFxCore)
 
 IF(WIN32)
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@ IF(FLTK_CONFIG AND NOT (LMMS_BUILD_APPLE OR LMMS_BUILD_WIN32))
 	STRING(REPLACE " " ";" FLTK_FILTERED_LDFLAGS ${FLTK_FILTERED_LDFLAGS})
 	LIST(REMOVE_ITEM FLTK_FILTERED_LDFLAGS -lX11)
 ENDIF()
-TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(RemoteZynAddSubFx zynaddsubfx_gui -L.. -lZynAddSubFxCore ${FLTK_FILTERED_LDFLAGS} -lpthread )
+TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(RemoteZynAddSubFx zynaddsubfx_gui -lZynAddSubFxCore ${FLTK_FILTERED_LDFLAGS} -lpthread )
 ADD_DEPENDENCIES(RemoteZynAddSubFx ZynAddSubFxCore)
 
 # Support qt_version_tag in Qt 5.6