diff --git a/src/api/CMakeLists.txt b/src/api/CMakeLists.txt
index 656f1529c4..d3b1acd5ed 100644
--- a/src/api/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/api/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@ generate_export_header(projectM_api
         EXPORT_FILE_NAME "${PROJECTM_EXPORT_HEADER}"
         )
 
+if(NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
+    target_compile_definitions(projectM_api
+            INTERFACE
+            PROJECTM_STATIC_DEFINE
+            )
+endif()
+
 add_library(libprojectM::API ALIAS projectM_api)
 
 
diff --git a/vendor/projectm-eval b/vendor/projectm-eval
index 811eea5594..da885dcdf3 160000
--- a/vendor/projectm-eval
+++ b/vendor/projectm-eval
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 811eea5594cc4092d0985fea9ccf0e52dec8a20a
+Subproject commit da885dcdf33620ef26aa04cac9e215378b80252e