diff --git a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/DiffusionCore/CMakeLists.txt b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/DiffusionCore/CMakeLists.txt
index 53c8d0b53e..b0ee596bbe 100644
--- a/Modules/DiffusionImaging/DiffusionCore/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Modules/DiffusionImaging/DiffusionCore/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,20 +1,19 @@
 # With apple gcc 4.2.1 the following waring leads to an build error if boost is enabled
 if(APPLE)
   mitkFunctionCheckCAndCXXCompilerFlags("-Wno-error=empty-body" CMAKE_C_FLAGS CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS)
 endif()
 
 MITK_CREATE_MODULE(
   SUBPROJECTS MITK-DTI
   INCLUDE_DIRS Algorithms Algorithms/Reconstruction Algorithms/Registration Algorithms/Reconstruction/MultishellProcessing DicomImport IODataStructures/DiffusionWeightedImages IODataStructures/QBallImages IODataStructures/TensorImages IODataStructures Rendering ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
   DEPENDS MitkMapperExt MitkPlanarFigure MitkImageExtraction MitkSceneSerializationBase MitkDICOMReader
   PACKAGE_DEPENDS VTK|vtkFiltersProgrammable ITK|ITKDistanceMap+ITKRegistrationCommon+ITKLabelVoting+ITKVTK Boost
                   ITK|ITKMetricsv4+ITKRegistrationMethodsv4
   WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS
 )
 
 if(MSVC)
-    list(APPEND module_compile_flags /wd4005)
-    set_target_properties(${MODULE_TARGET} PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "${module_compile_flags}")
-  endif()
+  mitkFunctionCheckCAndCXXCompilerFlags("/wd4005" CMAKE_C_FLAGS CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS)
+endif()
 
 add_subdirectory(Testing)