diff --git a/plugins/Plugins.cmake b/plugins/Plugins.cmake
index 1e8ef8936..c801570db 100644
--- a/plugins/Plugins.cmake
+++ b/plugins/Plugins.cmake
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ ENDMACRO()
 
 MACRO(DFHACK_PLUGIN)
   PARSE_ARGUMENTS(PLUGIN
-    "LINK_LIBRARIES;DEPENDS;PROTOBUFS"
+    "LINK_LIBRARIES;DEPENDS;PROTOBUFS;COMPILE_FLAGS;COMPILE_FLAGS_GCC;COMPILE_FLAGS_MSVC"
     "SOME_OPT"
     ${ARGN}
     )
@@ -95,6 +95,13 @@ MACRO(DFHACK_PLUGIN)
     TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${PLUGIN_NAME} dfhack dfhack-version ${PLUGIN_LINK_LIBRARIES})
   ENDIF()
 
+  SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${PLUGIN_NAME} PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "${PLUGIN_COMPILE_FLAGS}")
+  IF(UNIX)
+    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${PLUGIN_NAME} PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "${PLUGIN_COMPILE_FLAGS_GCC}")
+  ELSE()
+    SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${PLUGIN_NAME} PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "${PLUGIN_COMPILE_FLAGS_MSVC}")
+  ENDIF()
+
   IF(APPLE)
     SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(${PLUGIN_NAME} PROPERTIES SUFFIX .plug.dylib PREFIX "")
   ELSEIF(UNIX)