diff --git a/plugins/CMakeLists.txt b/plugins/CMakeLists.txt
index b0990baed..8de26592f 100644
--- a/plugins/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/plugins/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ MACRO(buildplugin TARGET TARGETLIB)
     SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TARGET} PROPERTIES RUNTIME_OUTPUT_NAME ${MANGLELIB})
     SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TARGET} PROPERTIES PREFIX "") # Critical that this be set to ""
     SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${TARGET} PROPERTIES SUFFIX ".${PLUGINEXT}")
-    TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${TARGET} ${ALL_TLL_LIBS};${ARGN})
+    TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${TARGET} PUBLIC ${ALL_TLL_LIBS};${ARGN})
   IF(MSVC)
     target_compile_options(${TARGET} PRIVATE /Zi)
     # Tell linker to include symbol data
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ MACRO(buildplugin TARGET TARGETLIB)
   ENDIF()
 
   IF(STATUS_PARALLEL)
-    target_link_libraries(${TARGET} MPI::MPI_C)
+    target_link_libraries(${TARGET} PUBLIC MPI::MPI_C)
   ENDIF(STATUS_PARALLEL)
 ENDMACRO()