diff --git a/source/script/max-posttarget.cmake b/source/script/max-posttarget.cmake
index 75185c5f..661ac4dd 100644
--- a/source/script/max-posttarget.cmake
+++ b/source/script/max-posttarget.cmake
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 
 target_compile_features(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE cxx_std_14)
 
+target_sources(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE 
+  "${C74_MAX_API_DIR}/max-includes/common/commonsyms.c"
+)
+
 set_target_properties(${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTIES
     CXX_STANDARD 14
     CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED ON
@@ -26,7 +30,7 @@ if(MSVC)
   target_compile_options(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE /W3 )
 else()
   target_compile_options(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE
-    -Wall -Wno-gnu-zero-variadic-macro-arguments -Wextra -Wpedantic -Wreturn-type
+    -Wall -Wno-gnu-zero-variadic-macro-arguments -Wextra -Wpedantic -Wreturn-type -include "${C74_MAX_INCLUDES}/macho-prefix.pch"
   )
 endif()
 
@@ -82,9 +86,7 @@ if (APPLE)
   #If we target 10.7 (actually < 10.9), we have to manually include this:
   target_compile_options(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE -stdlib=libc++)
 elseif (WIN32)
-  
-  target_sources(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE "${C74_MAX_API_DIR}/max-includes/common/commonsyms.c")
-  
+    
 	target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE ${MaxAPI_LIB})
 	target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE ${MaxAudio_LIB})
 	target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE ${Jitter_LIB})
diff --git a/source/script/max-pretarget.cmake b/source/script/max-pretarget.cmake
index 4d8ad242..ebe2b7b0 100644
--- a/source/script/max-pretarget.cmake
+++ b/source/script/max-pretarget.cmake
@@ -17,7 +17,17 @@ endif()
 
 if (NOT DEFINED C74_MAX_API_DIR)
    file(TO_CMAKE_PATH "${MAX_SDK_PATH}" MAX_SDK_FULLPATH)
-   set(C74_MAX_API_DIR "${MAX_SDK_FULLPATH}/source/c74support")
+   if(EXISTS "${MAX_SDK_FULLPATH}/source/c74support")
+     set(C74_MAX_API_DIR "${MAX_SDK_FULLPATH}/source/c74support")
+   # newer SDK layout, full Max-SDK download 
+   elseif(EXISTS "${MAX_SDK_FULLPATH}/source/max-sdk-base/c74support") 
+     set(C74_MAX_API_DIR "${MAX_SDK_FULLPATH}/source/max-sdk-base/c74support")
+    # newer SDK layout, just max-sdk-base   
+   elseif(EXISTS "${MAX_SDK_FULLPATH}/c74support")   
+      set(C74_MAX_API_DIR "${MAX_SDK_FULLPATH}/c74support")
+   else()
+     message(FATAL_ERROR "Could not find Cycling 74 support folder")
+   endif()
 endif ()
 #set(C74_INCLUDES "${C74_MAX_API_DIR}/include")
 set(C74_MAX_INCLUDES ${C74_MAX_API_DIR}/max-includes)
@@ -28,9 +38,6 @@ set(C74_SCRIPTS "../../script")
 
 set(C74_CXX_STANDARD 0)
 
-if (APPLE)	
-	SET( CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS  "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -include \"${C74_MAX_INCLUDES}/macho-prefix.pch\"")
-endif ()
 
 # if (NOT DEFINED C74_BUILD_MAX_EXTENSION)
 # 	set(CMAKE_LIBRARY_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../../externals")