diff --git a/libvpl/CMakeLists.txt b/libvpl/CMakeLists.txt
index 0419980..42a765a 100644
--- a/libvpl/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/libvpl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -188,10 +188,24 @@ if(INSTALL_DEV)
   if(MINGW)
     # being conservative by restricting to MinGW, these are probably ok for
     # WIN32 in general
-    set(MINGW_LIBS "-lole32 -lgdi32 -luuid")
+    set(WIN32_LIBS "-lole32 -lgdi32 -luuid")
+  elseif(WIN32)
+    set(WIN32_LIBS "-ladvapi32 -lole32")
   endif()
+  set(CXX_LIB "")
+  foreach(lib IN LISTS CMAKE_CXX_IMPLICIT_LINK_LIBRARIES)
+    if(lib IN_LIST CMAKE_C_IMPLICIT_LINK_LIBRARIES)
+        continue()
+    elseif(IS_ABSOLUTE "${lib}")
+        # An absolute archive path is already valid linker input; pass it
+        # through verbatim. Only bare library names get the "-l" prefix.
+        string(APPEND CXX_LIB " ${lib}")
+    else()
+        string(APPEND CXX_LIB " -l${lib}")
+    endif()
+  endforeach()
   set(VPL_PKGCONFIG_DEPENDENT_LIBS
-      "${DL_LIBS} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} ${MINGW_LIBS} ${CXX_LIB}")
+      "${DL_LIBS} ${CMAKE_THREAD_LIBS_INIT} ${WIN32_LIBS} ${CXX_LIB}")
   configure_file("pkgconfig/vpl.pc.in" "pkgconfig/vpl.pc" @ONLY)
   install(
     FILES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/pkgconfig/vpl.pc"
diff --git a/libvpl/pkgconfig/vpl.pc.in b/libvpl/pkgconfig/vpl.pc.in
index aa9b158..46b2c38 100644
--- a/libvpl/pkgconfig/vpl.pc.in
+++ b/libvpl/pkgconfig/vpl.pc.in
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-prefix=@pc_rel_prefix@
-libdir=@pc_rel_libdir@
-includedir=@pc_rel_incdir@
+prefix=${pcfiledir}/../..
+libdir=${prefix}/lib
+includedir=${prefix}/include

 Name: Intel(R) Video Processing Library
 Description: Accelerated video decode, encode, and frame processing capabilities on Intel(R) GPUs