diff --git a/cmake/OpenCVModule.cmake b/cmake/OpenCVModule.cmake
index cae2a39c9d..88ebe54f79 100644
--- a/cmake/OpenCVModule.cmake
+++ b/cmake/OpenCVModule.cmake
@@ -576,7 +576,10 @@ macro(ocv_create_module)
   if(NOT "${ARGN}" STREQUAL "SKIP_LINK")
     target_link_libraries(${the_module} ${OPENCV_MODULE_${the_module}_DEPS})
     target_link_libraries(${the_module} LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES ${OPENCV_MODULE_${the_module}_DEPS})
-    target_link_libraries(${the_module} ${OPENCV_MODULE_${the_module}_DEPS_EXT} ${OPENCV_LINKER_LIBS} ${IPP_LIBS} ${ARGN})
+    set(extra_deps ${OPENCV_MODULE_${the_module}_DEPS_EXT} ${OPENCV_LINKER_LIBS} ${IPP_LIBS} ${ARGN})
+    ocv_extract_simple_libs(extra_deps _simple_deps _other_deps)
+    target_link_libraries(${the_module} LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES ${_simple_deps}) # this list goes to "export"
+    target_link_libraries(${the_module} ${extra_deps})
   endif()
 
   add_dependencies(opencv_modules ${the_module})
diff --git a/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake b/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake
index c23ddccebe..0692b763d5 100644
--- a/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake
+++ b/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake
@@ -630,3 +630,21 @@ function(ocv_source_group group)
   file(GLOB srcs ${OCV_SOURCE_GROUP_GLOB})
   source_group(${group} FILES ${srcs})
 endfunction()
+
+# build the list of simple dependencies, that links via "-l"
+#  _all_libs - name of variable with input list
+#  _simple - name of variable with output list of simple libs
+#  _other - name of variable with _all_libs - _simple
+macro(ocv_extract_simple_libs _all_libs _simple _other)
+  set(${_simple} "")
+  set(${_other} "")
+  foreach(_l ${${_all_libs}})
+    if(TARGET ${_l})
+        list(APPEND ${_other} ${_l})
+    elseif(EXISTS "${_l}")
+        list(APPEND ${_other} ${_l})
+    else()
+        list(APPEND ${_simple} ${_l})
+    endif()
+  endforeach()
+endmacro()