diff --git a/plugins/Common/retroshare_plugin.pri b/plugins/Common/retroshare_plugin.pri
index d20c1baa4..3c9644c55 100644
--- a/plugins/Common/retroshare_plugin.pri
+++ b/plugins/Common/retroshare_plugin.pri
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ win32 {
 	QMAKE_CFLAGS += -Wextra
 	QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -Wextra
 
+	# solve linker warnings because of the order of the libraries
+	QMAKE_LFLAGS += -Wl,--start-group
+
 	OBJECTS_DIR = temp/obj
 	MOC_DIR = temp/moc
 	RCC_DIR = temp/qrc
diff --git a/plugins/FeedReader/FeedReader.pro b/plugins/FeedReader/FeedReader.pro
index acc3b4e4c..4cebc5f48 100644
--- a/plugins/FeedReader/FeedReader.pro
+++ b/plugins/FeedReader/FeedReader.pro
@@ -92,8 +92,7 @@ linux-* {
 win32 {
 	DEFINES += CURL_STATICLIB LIBXML_STATIC LIBXSLT_STATIC LIBEXSLT_STATIC
 
-	# Change order of the libraries
-	LIBS = -lcurl -lxml2 -lz -lxslt -lws2_32 -lwldap32 -lssl -lcrypto -lgdi32 -lwsock32 $${LIBS}
+	LIBS += -lcurl -lxml2 -lz -lxslt -lws2_32 -lwldap32 -lssl -lcrypto
 }
 
 openbsd-* {