diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index edb04eb..792b319 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,20 +21,14 @@ else()
     message(FATAL_ERROR "Error: cannot locate fontforge.h")
 endif()
 
-if(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Linux")
-    set(FF_LIB_EXT ".so")
-elseif(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
-    set(FF_LIB_EXT ".dylib")
-else()
-    message("Set FF_LIB_EXT for your platform!")
-endif()
+set(FF_LIB_NAME ${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX}fontforge${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX})
 
-find_library(FF_LIB libfontforge${FF_LIB_EXT})
+find_library(FF_LIB FF_LIB_NAME)
 if(FF_LIB)
-    message("Found libfontforge${FF_LIB_EXT}: ${FF_LIB}")
+    message("Found ${FF_LIB_NAME}: ${FF_LIB}")
     set(FONTFORGE_LIBRARIES ${FF_LIB})
 else()
-    message(FATAL_ERROR "Error: cannot locate libfontforge${FF_LIB_EXT}")
+    message(FATAL_ERROR "Error: cannot locate ${FF_LIB_NAME}")
 endif()
 
 message("Looking for libraries of python, which is required by fontforge, if you can link fontforge without python, you may disable this")