diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 95013ba..6d10c7c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ HOMEPAGE_URL https://www.p4est.org/
 DESCRIPTION "p4est manages a collection---a forest---of octrees in parallel."
 VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION})
 
+set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE ON)
+
 enable_testing()
 
 # --- user options
@@ -47,7 +49,10 @@ install(DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/ ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/
   TYPE INCLUDE
   FILES_MATCHING PATTERN "*.h")
 
-install(TARGETS p4est EXPORT ${PROJECT_NAME}-targets)
+install(TARGETS p4est EXPORT ${PROJECT_NAME}-targets
+  ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${library_reldir}
+  LIBRARY DESTINATION ${library_reldir}
+  )
 
 #--- p8est