diff -purN a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/CMakeLists.txt	2017-01-07 18:10:57.214728093 +0000
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt	2017-01-07 18:11:06.322736320 +0000
@@ -37,12 +37,6 @@ cmake_policy(SET CMP0010 NEW)
 # Input directories must have CMakeLists.txt
 cmake_policy(SET CMP0014 NEW)
 
-# avoid having empty buildtype
-set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE_INIT "Release")
-
-set(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "Debug;Release" CACHE STRING "Only do Release and Debug" FORCE )
-mark_as_advanced(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES)
-
 SET(CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX ""  CACHE STRING "Add this string to as suffix to Debug libraries, e.g.: xml2_d.lib " )
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -84,7 +78,7 @@ macro(opencollada_add_lib
 			message(${name} " WARNING: Shared library support implemented for UNIX-like OS only")
 		endif ()
 		add_library(${name}_shared SHARED ${sources})
-		set_target_properties(${name}_shared PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME ${name})
+		set_target_properties(${name}_shared PROPERTIES OUTPUT_NAME ${name} SOVERSION ${soversion})
 		foreach(target_lib ${target_libs})
 			if(TARGET ${target_lib}_shared)
 				target_link_libraries(${name}_shared ${target_lib}_shared)
@@ -158,6 +152,9 @@ set(OPENCOLLADA_VERSION_MINOR 1)
 set(OPENCOLLADA_VERSION_PATCH 0)
 set(OPENCOLLADA_VERSION ${OPENCOLLADA_VERSION_MAJOR}.${OPENCOLLADA_VERSION_MINOR}.${OPENCOLLADA_VERSION_PATCH})
 
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Generic install paths
+include(GNUInstallDirs)
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Compiler warnings.
@@ -190,9 +187,9 @@ set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Install vars
 
-set(OPENCOLLADA_INST_INCLUDE ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/include/opencollada)
-set(OPENCOLLADA_INST_LIBRARY ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib/opencollada)
-set(OPENCOLLADA_INST_CMAKECONFIG ${OPENCOLLADA_INST_LIBRARY}/cmake)
+set(OPENCOLLADA_INST_INCLUDE ${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_INCLUDEDIR}/opencollada)
+set(OPENCOLLADA_INST_LIBRARY ${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR}/opencollada)
+set(OPENCOLLADA_INST_CMAKECONFIG ${CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR}/opencollada/cmake)
 
 
 #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -236,8 +233,7 @@ endif ()
 
 if (USE_EXPAT)
 	add_definitions(-DGENERATEDSAXPARSER_XMLPARSER_EXPAT)
-	message("FATAL: EXPAT support not implemented")
-	# TODO:: use externals
+	set(LIBEXPAT_LIBRARIES expat)
 endif ()
 
 if(USE_STATIC_MSVC_RUNTIME)
@@ -270,10 +266,10 @@ else ()  # if pcre not found building it
 endif ()
 
 # building required libs
+add_subdirectory(${EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES}/UTF)                                    
+add_subdirectory(${EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES}/MathMLSolver)
 add_subdirectory(common/libftoa)
 add_subdirectory(common/libBuffer)
-add_subdirectory(${EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES}/UTF)
-add_subdirectory(${EXTERNAL_LIBRARIES}/MathMLSolver)
 
 # building OpenCOLLADA libs
 add_subdirectory(COLLADABaseUtils)
diff -purN a/common/libBuffer/CMakeLists.txt b/common/libBuffer/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/common/libBuffer/CMakeLists.txt	2016-11-30 17:19:38.000000000 +0000
+++ b/common/libBuffer/CMakeLists.txt	2017-01-07 18:05:50.306440325 +0000
@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ set(SRC
 	include/performanceTest/performanceTest.h
 )
 
-set(TARGET_LIBS ftoa)
+set(TARGET_LIBS
+	ftoa
+	UTF
+)
 
 include_directories(
 	${libBuffer_include_dirs}