diff --git a/modules/highgui/CMakeLists.txt b/modules/highgui/CMakeLists.txt
index ab8474dc3..dccf4b86a 100644
--- a/modules/highgui/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/modules/highgui/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -242,20 +242,20 @@ if(OPENNI_LIBRARY)
 endif()
 
 if(APPLE AND NOT IOS)
-    set(HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES ${HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES} -lbz2 -framework Cocoa -framework QuartzCore)
+    set(HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES ${HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES} bz2 "-framework Cocoa" "-framework QuartzCore")
     if(WITH_CARBON)
-        set(HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES ${HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES} -framework Carbon)
+        set(HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES ${HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES} "-framework Carbon")
     endif()
     if(NOT WITH_QUICKTIME)
-        set(HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES ${HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES} -framework QTKit)
+        set(HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES ${HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES} "-framework QTKit")
     endif()
     if(WITH_CARBON OR WITH_QUICKTIME)
-        set(HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES ${HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES} -framework QuickTime -framework CoreFoundation)
+        set(HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES ${HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES} "-framework QuickTime" "-framework CoreFoundation")
     endif()
 endif()
 
 if(IOS)
-    set(HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES ${HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES} -lbz2 -framework QuartzCore -framework CoreFoundation -framework ImageIO -framework CoreGraphics -framework AVFoundation)
+    set(HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES ${HIGHGUI_LIBRARIES} bz2 "-framework QuartzCore" "-framework CoreFoundation" "-framework ImageIO" "-framework CoreGraphics" "-framework AVFoundation")
 endif()
 
 if(OPENCV_BUILD_3RDPARTY_LIBS AND WIN32)