diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 93d3a73..8afdddf 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,15 @@ version_numbers (
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # options
-set (GFLAGS_NAMESPACE "${PACKAGE_NAME}" CACHE STRING "C++ namespace identifier of gflags library.")
+set (GFLAGS_NAMESPACE   "${PACKAGE_NAME}" CACHE STRING "C++ namespace identifier of gflags library.")
+set (GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR "${PACKAGE_NAME}" CACHE STRING "Include subdirectory of gflags header files.")
+
+if (IS_ABSOLUTE GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR)
+  message (FATAL_ERROR "GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR must be a path relative to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/include")
+endif ()
+if (GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR MATCHES "^\\.\\.[/\\]")
+  message (FATAL_ERROR "GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR must not start with parent directory reference (../)")
+endif ()
 
 option (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS          "Request build of shared libraries."                                       OFF)
 option (BUILD_STATIC_LIBS          "Request build of static libraries (default if BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is OFF)." OFF)
@@ -38,6 +46,7 @@ option (INSTALL_HEADERS            "Request packaging of headers and other devel
 mark_as_advanced (CLEAR CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX)
 mark_as_advanced (CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES
                   GFLAGS_NAMESPACE
+                  GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR
                   BUILD_STATIC_LIBS
                   BUILD_NC_TESTS
                   INSTALL_HEADERS)
@@ -197,13 +206,22 @@ else ()
   set (GFLAGS_ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
 endif ()
 
+# whenever we build a shared library (DLL on Windows), configure the public
+# headers of the API for use of this library rather than the optionally
+# also build statically linked library; users can override GFLAGS_DLL_DECL
+if (BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
+  set (GFLAGS_IS_A_DLL 1)
+else ()
+  set (GFLAGS_IS_A_DLL 0)
+endif ()
+
 configure_headers (PUBLIC_HDRS  ${PUBLIC_HDRS})
 configure_sources (PRIVATE_HDRS ${PRIVATE_HDRS})
 configure_sources (GFLAGS_SRCS  ${GFLAGS_SRCS})
 
 include_directories ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src")
 include_directories ("${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include")
-include_directories ("${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_NAMESPACE}")
+include_directories ("${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR}")
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # output directories
@@ -273,7 +291,7 @@ configure_file (cmake/version.cmake.in "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/${PACKAGE_NAME}-co
 
 install (TARGETS ${TARGETS} DESTINATION ${LIBRARY_INSTALL_DIR} EXPORT gflags-lib)
 if (INSTALL_HEADERS)
-  install (FILES ${PUBLIC_HDRS} DESTINATION ${INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR}/${GFLAGS_NAMESPACE})
+  install (FILES ${PUBLIC_HDRS} DESTINATION ${INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR}/${GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR})
   install (
     FILES "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/${PACKAGE_NAME}-config-install.cmake"
     RENAME ${PACKAGE_NAME}-config.cmake
@@ -376,19 +394,23 @@ if (BUILD_PACKAGING)
     set (CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE)
   else ()
     string (TOLOWER "${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME}" CPACK_SYSTEM_NAME)
-    execute_process (
-      COMMAND         dpkg --print-architecture
-      RESULT_VARIABLE RV
-      OUTPUT_VARIABLE CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE
-    )
-    if (RV EQUAL 0)
-	    string (STRIP "${CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE}" CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE)
+    if (CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS MATCHES "-m32")
+      set (CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE i386)
     else ()
-      execute_process (COMMAND uname -m OUTPUT_VARIABLE CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE)
-      if (CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE MATCHES "x86_64")
-	      set (CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE amd64)
+      execute_process (
+        COMMAND         dpkg --print-architecture
+        RESULT_VARIABLE RV
+        OUTPUT_VARIABLE CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE
+      )
+      if (RV EQUAL 0)
+	      string (STRIP "${CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE}" CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE)
       else ()
-        set (CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE i386)
+        execute_process (COMMAND uname -m OUTPUT_VARIABLE CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE)
+        if (CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE MATCHES "x86_64")
+	        set (CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE amd64)
+        else ()
+          set (CPACK_PACKAGE_ARCHITECTURE i386)
+        endif ()
       endif ()
     endif ()
   endif ()
diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index b9a68f3..ba8d91c 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 === 20 March 2014 ===
 
-I've just released gflags 2.1.0.
+I've just released gflags 2.1.
 
 The major changes are the use of CMake for the build configuration instead
-of the autotools and packaging support through CPack. This release compiles
-with all major compilers without warnings and passed the unit tests on 
-Ubuntu 12.04, Windows 7 (Visual Studio 2008 and 2010, Cygwin, MinGW), and
-Mac OS X (Xcode 5.1).
+of the autotools and packaging support through CPack. The default namespace
+of all C++ symbols is now "gflags" instead of "google". This can be
+configured via the GFLAGS_NAMESPACE variable.
+
+This release compiles with all major compilers without warnings and passed
+the unit tests on  Ubuntu 12.04, Windows 7 (Visual Studio 2008 and 2010,
+Cygwin, MinGW), and Mac OS X (Xcode 5.1).
 
 The SVN repository on Google Code is now frozen and replaced by a Git
 repository such that it can be used as Git submodule by projects. The main
@@ -21,9 +24,7 @@ For the further development, I am following the
 with feature branch names prefixed by "feature/" and bugfix branch names
 prefixed by "bugfix/", respectively.
 
-Binary and source distribution packages can be downloaded from
-[https://github.com/schuhschuh/gflags GitHub] as Google Code no longer
-permits the upload of such download packages.
+Binary and source [https://github.com/schuhschuh/gflags/releases packages] are available on GitHub.
 
 
 === 14 January 2013 ===
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index b5ecbbb..958c87e 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -2,5 +2,3 @@ This package contains a library that implements commandline flags
 processing.  As such it's a replacement for getopt().  It has increased
 flexibility, including built-in support for C++ types like string, and
 the ability to define flags in the source file in which they're used.
-The devel package contains static and debug libraries and header files
-for developing applications that use the gflags package.
diff --git a/cmake/utils.cmake b/cmake/utils.cmake
index ead2638..97c9a66 100644
--- a/cmake/utils.cmake
+++ b/cmake/utils.cmake
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ function (configure_headers out)
   set (tmp)
   foreach (src IN LISTS ARGN)
     if (EXISTS "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/${src}.in")
-      configure_file ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/${src}.in" "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_NAMESPACE}/${src}" @ONLY)
-      list (APPEND tmp "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_NAMESPACE}/${src}")
+      configure_file ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/${src}.in" "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR}/${src}" @ONLY)
+      list (APPEND tmp "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR}/${src}")
     else ()
-	    configure_file ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/${src}" "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_NAMESPACE}/${src}" COPYONLY)
-      list (APPEND tmp "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_NAMESPACE}/${src}")
+	    configure_file ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/${src}" "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR}/${src}" COPYONLY)
+      list (APPEND tmp "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR}/${src}")
     endif ()
   endforeach ()
   set (${out} "${tmp}" PARENT_SCOPE)
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ function (configure_sources out)
   set (tmp)
   foreach (src IN LISTS ARGN)
     if (src MATCHES ".h$" AND EXISTS "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/${src}.in")
-      configure_file ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/${src}.in" "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_NAMESPACE}/${src}" @ONLY)
-      list (APPEND tmp "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_NAMESPACE}/${src}")
+      configure_file ("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/${src}.in" "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR}/${src}" @ONLY)
+      list (APPEND tmp "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/include/${GFLAGS_INCLUDE_DIR}/${src}")
     else ()
       list (APPEND tmp "${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/src/${src}")
     endif ()
diff --git a/src/gflags_declare.h.in b/src/gflags_declare.h.in
index b0548fa..b9ab9c7 100644
--- a/src/gflags_declare.h.in
+++ b/src/gflags_declare.h.in
@@ -113,13 +113,13 @@ typedef std::string clstring;
   DECLARE_VARIABLE(bool, B, name)
 
 #define DECLARE_int32(name) \
-  DECLARE_VARIABLE(GFLAGS_NAMESPACE::int32, I, name)
+  DECLARE_VARIABLE(::@GFLAGS_NAMESPACE@::int32, I, name)
 
 #define DECLARE_int64(name) \
-  DECLARE_VARIABLE(GFLAGS_NAMESPACE::int64, I64, name)
+  DECLARE_VARIABLE(::@GFLAGS_NAMESPACE@::int64, I64, name)
 
 #define DECLARE_uint64(name) \
-  DECLARE_VARIABLE(GFLAGS_NAMESPACE::uint64, U64, name)
+  DECLARE_VARIABLE(::@GFLAGS_NAMESPACE@::uint64, U64, name)
 
 #define DECLARE_double(name) \
   DECLARE_VARIABLE(double, D, name)