diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8cd43729f..b8c39eea4 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ if (OPTION_OMP)
 	endif (OPENMP_FOUND)
 endif (OPTION_OMP)
 
+if (UNIX)
+    install (PROGRAMS rtstart DESTINATION ${BINDIR})
+endif (UNIX)
+
 add_subdirectory (rtexif)
 add_subdirectory (rtengine)
 add_subdirectory (rtgui)
diff --git a/rtstart b/rtstart
index 2bc895444..5de7f84bc 100755
--- a/rtstart
+++ b/rtstart
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 #!/bin/bash
-
-export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`dirname "$0"`
-`dirname "$0"`/rt
\ No newline at end of file
+RT_BINDIR=`dirname "$0"`
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${RT_BINDIR}
+cd "${RT_BINDIR}" && ./rt