diff --git a/googletest/cmake/internal_utils.cmake b/googletest/cmake/internal_utils.cmake
index 42850f59..6f7fdc2c 100644
--- a/googletest/cmake/internal_utils.cmake
+++ b/googletest/cmake/internal_utils.cmake
@@ -162,7 +162,8 @@ function(cxx_library_with_type name type cxx_flags)
     RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin"
     LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib"
     ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib"
-    PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin")
+    PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/bin"
+    COMPILE_PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib")
   # make PDBs match library name
   get_target_property(pdb_debug_postfix ${name} DEBUG_POSTFIX)
   set_target_properties(${name}