diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 067b62174..2e0ffbb2c 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ cmake_dependent_option(
 option(USE_DOXYGEN "Build HTML cross reference with doxygen" OFF)
 option(USE_PANDOC "Build man pages and HTML reference with pandoc" ON)
 option(USE_POC "Build small, uninstalled proof-of-concept binaries" ON)
-option(USE_QRCODEGEN "Disable libqrcodegen QR code support" OFF)
+option(USE_QRCODEGEN "Enable libqrcodegen QR code support" OFF)
 option(USE_STATIC "Build static libraries (in addition to shared)" ON)
 set(USE_MULTIMEDIA "ffmpeg" CACHE STRING "Multimedia engine, one of 'ffmpeg', 'oiio', or 'none'")
 set_property(CACHE USE_MULTIMEDIA PROPERTY STRINGS ffmpeg oiio none)
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ target_link_libraries(notcurses-core
     "${READLINE_LIBRARIES}"
     "${LIBM}"
     "${LIBRT}"
-    unistring
+    "${unistring}"
   PUBLIC
     Threads::Threads
 )
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ target_link_libraries(notcurses-core-static
     "${READLINE_STATIC_LIBRARIES}"
     "${LIBM}"
     "${LIBRT}"
-    unistring
+    "${unistring}"
   PUBLIC
     Threads::Threads
 )
@@ -644,7 +644,7 @@ target_include_directories(notcurses-tester
 target_link_libraries(notcurses-tester
   PRIVATE
     notcurses++
-    unistring
+    "${unistring}"
     "${TERMINFO_LIBRARIES}"
 )
 add_test(