diff --git a/reactos/CMakeLists.txt b/reactos/CMakeLists.txt
index 78c9ae02988..7ca06686eef 100644
--- a/reactos/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/reactos/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -94,8 +94,6 @@ if(NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)
             add_definitions(/D_ALLOW_KEYWORD_MACROS)
         endif()
         add_definitions(/Dinline=__inline)
-    else()
-        add_compile_flags("-fshort-wchar -Wno-multichar")
     endif()
 
     include_directories(sdk/include/host)
diff --git a/reactos/sdk/lib/cmlib/CMakeLists.txt b/reactos/sdk/lib/cmlib/CMakeLists.txt
index 258fba9611e..21839350111 100644
--- a/reactos/sdk/lib/cmlib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/reactos/sdk/lib/cmlib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -26,5 +26,10 @@ else()
         -D__NO_CTYPE_INLINES
         -DCMLIB_HOST)
     add_library(cmlibhost ${SOURCE})
+
+    if(NOT MSVC)
+        add_target_compile_flags(cmlibhost "-fshort-wchar -Wno-multichar")
+    endif()
+
     target_link_libraries(cmlibhost unicode)
 endif()
diff --git a/reactos/sdk/lib/inflib/CMakeLists.txt b/reactos/sdk/lib/inflib/CMakeLists.txt
index 4fc96941bfd..e6ed96f8c13 100644
--- a/reactos/sdk/lib/inflib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/reactos/sdk/lib/inflib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -23,8 +23,10 @@ else()
 
     add_definitions(-D__NO_CTYPE_INLINES -DINFLIB_HOST)
     add_library(inflibhost ${SOURCE})
+
     if(NOT MSVC)
-        add_target_compile_flags(inflibhost "-Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings")
+        add_target_compile_flags(inflibhost "-fshort-wchar -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings")
     endif()
+
     target_link_libraries(inflibhost unicode)
 endif()
diff --git a/reactos/sdk/tools/mkhive/CMakeLists.txt b/reactos/sdk/tools/mkhive/CMakeLists.txt
index 7903d11f3c8..5f9446f7ae6 100644
--- a/reactos/sdk/tools/mkhive/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/reactos/sdk/tools/mkhive/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,4 +15,9 @@ list(APPEND SOURCE
     rtl.c)
 
 add_host_tool(mkhive ${SOURCE})
+
+if(NOT MSVC)
+    add_target_compile_flags(mkhive "-fshort-wchar")
+endif()
+
 target_link_libraries(mkhive unicode cmlibhost inflibhost)
diff --git a/reactos/sdk/tools/xml2sdb/CMakeLists.txt b/reactos/sdk/tools/xml2sdb/CMakeLists.txt
index 8eb9e230efe..6997c6f730e 100644
--- a/reactos/sdk/tools/xml2sdb/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/reactos/sdk/tools/xml2sdb/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,6 @@
 
 add_definitions(-DSDBWRITE_HOSTTOOL=1)
 
-if(MSVC)
-    set_property(SOURCE main.cpp tinyxml2.cpp xml2sdb.cpp APPEND_STRING PROPERTY COMPILE_FLAGS " /EHsc")
-else()
-    add_compile_flags("-fshort-wchar -Wno-multichar")
-endif()
-
-
 list(APPEND SOURCE
     main.cpp
     tinyxml2.cpp
@@ -17,3 +10,9 @@ list(APPEND SOURCE
 
 include_directories(${REACTOS_SOURCE_DIR}/dll/appcompat/apphelp)
 add_host_tool(xml2sdb ${SOURCE})
+
+if(MSVC)
+    set_source_files_properties(${SOURCE} PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS " /EHsc")
+else()
+    add_target_compile_flags(xml2sdb "-fshort-wchar")
+endif()