diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 6a0e440..d878599 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ set(BR_WITH_CVMATIO OFF CACHE BOOL "Build with cvmatio library to read Matlab da
 if(${BR_WITH_CVMATIO})
   find_package(cvmatio REQUIRED)
   add_definitions(-DCVMATIO)
+  add_subdirectory(${CVMATIO_DIR})
+  include_directories(${CVMATIO_DIR}/include)
+  set(BR_THIRDPARTY_SRC ${BR_THIRDPARTY_SRC} ${CVMATIO_DIR}/src/MatlabIO.cpp)
+  link_directories(${CVMATIO_LIB_DIR})
+  set(BR_THIRDPARTY_LIBS ${BR_THIRDPARTY_LIBS} cvmatio)
 endif()
 
 # Compiler flags
diff --git a/share/openbr/cmake/Findcvmatio.cmake b/share/openbr/cmake/Findcvmatio.cmake
index 80d9222..dc8f172 100644
--- a/share/openbr/cmake/Findcvmatio.cmake
+++ b/share/openbr/cmake/Findcvmatio.cmake
@@ -1,19 +1,9 @@
 set(CVMATIO_DIR "${BR_THIRDPARTY_DIR}/cvmatio")
 if(NOT EXISTS ${CVMATIO_DIR})
   # download source from github
-  execute_process(COMMAND "git" "clone" "https://github.com/hbristow/cvmatio.git" WORKING_DIRECTORY ${BR_THIRDPARTY_DIR})
+  execute_process(COMMAND "git" "clone" "https://github.com/biometrics/cvmatio.git" WORKING_DIRECTORY ${BR_THIRDPARTY_DIR})
 else()
   # update the source
   execute_process(COMMAND "git" "pull" WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CVMATIO_DIR})
 endif()
-add_subdirectory(${CVMATIO_DIR})
-include_directories(${CVMATIO_DIR}/include)
-set(BR_THIRDPARTY_SRC ${BR_THIRDPARTY_SRC} ${CVMATIO_DIR}/src/MatlabIO.cpp)
 set(CVMATIO_LIB_DIR ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/3rdparty/cvmatio/src)
-link_directories(${CVMATIO_LIB_DIR})
-set(BR_THIRDPARTY_LIBS ${BR_THIRDPARTY_LIBS} cvmatio)
-# because the project's cmake installs to the project folder,
-# install(TARGETS cvmatio DESTINATION lib) doesn't work
-# (i get error "target doesn't exist in this directory")
-# so yeah, this won't work in windows
-install(FILES ${CVMATIO_LIB_DIR}/libcvmatio.dylib DESTINATION lib)