diff --git a/rpcs3/CMakeLists.txt b/rpcs3/CMakeLists.txt
index 3ee55b19e8..ececaa4980 100644
--- a/rpcs3/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/rpcs3/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,14 @@ if (APPLE)
 endif()
 
 if(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Linux")
-	set(RT_LIB "rt")
+	#on some Linux distros shm_unlink and similar functions are in librt only
+	set(ADDITIONAL_LIBS "rt")
+elseif(UNIX)
+	#it seems like glibc includes the iconv functions we use but other libc
+	#implementations like the one on OSX don't seem implement them
+	set(ADDITIONAL_LIBS "iconv")
 else()
-	set(RT_LIB "")
+	set(ADDITIONAL_LIBS "")
 endif()
 
 If( NOT RPCS3_SRC_DIR)
@@ -126,7 +131,7 @@ set_source_files_properties(${RPCS3_SRC_DIR}/Emu/Cell/PPULLVMRecompiler.cpp PROP
 add_executable(rpcs3 ${RPCS3_SRC})
 
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -L${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/../asmjit/") #hack because the asmjit cmake file force fno exceptions
-target_link_libraries(rpcs3  asmjit.a  ${wxWidgets_LIBRARIES} ${OPENAL_LIBRARY} ${GLEW_LIBRARY} ${OPENGL_LIBRARIES} libavformat.a libavcodec.a libavutil.a libswresample.a libswscale.a ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES} ${LLVM_LIBS} ${RT_LIB} )
+target_link_libraries(rpcs3  asmjit.a  ${wxWidgets_LIBRARIES} ${OPENAL_LIBRARY} ${GLEW_LIBRARY} ${OPENGL_LIBRARIES} libavformat.a libavcodec.a libavutil.a libswresample.a libswscale.a ${ZLIB_LIBRARIES} ${LLVM_LIBS} ${ADDITIONAL_LIBS} )
 
 set_target_properties(rpcs3 PROPERTIES COTIRE_CXX_PREFIX_HEADER_INIT "${RPCS3_SRC_DIR}/stdafx.h")
 cotire(rpcs3)