diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4464441b760dc8c3c8bb2f1d7d7c57340511168e..e90f7db03c3bf114ed35571e235f3aa701c54c3d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ OCV_OPTION(BUILD_TESTS              "Build accuracy & regression tests"
 OCV_OPTION(BUILD_WITH_DEBUG_INFO    "Include debug info into debug libs (not MSCV only)" ON )
 OCV_OPTION(BUILD_WITH_STATIC_CRT    "Enables use of statically linked CRT for statically linked OpenCV" ON IF MSVC )
 OCV_OPTION(BUILD_WITH_DYNAMIC_IPP   "Enables dynamic linking of IPP (only for standalone IPP)" OFF )
-OCV_OPTION(BUILD_FAT_JAVA_LIB       "Create fat java wrapper containing the whole OpenCV library" ON IF NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS AND CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX )
+OCV_OPTION(BUILD_FAT_JAVA_LIB       "Create Java wrapper exporting all functions of OpenCV library (requires static build of OpenCV modules)" ANDROID IF NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
 OCV_OPTION(BUILD_ANDROID_SERVICE    "Build OpenCV Manager for Google Play" OFF IF ANDROID )
 OCV_OPTION(BUILD_CUDA_STUBS         "Build CUDA modules stubs when no CUDA SDK" OFF  IF (NOT APPLE_FRAMEWORK) )
 OCV_OPTION(BUILD_JAVA               "Enable Java support"                         (ANDROID OR NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING)  IF (ANDROID OR (NOT APPLE_FRAMEWORK AND NOT WINRT)) )
@@ -1401,7 +1401,7 @@ endif()
 # ========================== java ==========================
 if(BUILD_JAVA OR BUILD_opencv_java)
   status("")
-  status("  Java:")
+  status("  Java:"            BUILD_FAT_JAVA_LIB  THEN "export all functions"                                      ELSE "")
   status("    ant:"           ANT_EXECUTABLE      THEN "${ANT_EXECUTABLE} (ver ${ANT_VERSION})"                    ELSE NO)
   if(NOT ANDROID)
     status("    JNI:"         JNI_INCLUDE_DIRS    THEN "${JNI_INCLUDE_DIRS}"                                       ELSE NO)
diff --git a/cmake/OpenCVModule.cmake b/cmake/OpenCVModule.cmake
index a84bbff4534efc647688a168f79a3ea3b1d81fd9..f89e4cfd8485f616fe507238a6d2ba17c02214d2 100644
--- a/cmake/OpenCVModule.cmake
+++ b/cmake/OpenCVModule.cmake
@@ -886,7 +886,10 @@ macro(_ocv_create_module)
     DEFINE_SYMBOL CVAPI_EXPORTS
   )
 
-  if(ANDROID AND BUILD_FAT_JAVA_LIB)
+  if(BUILD_FAT_JAVA_LIB)  # force exports from static modules too
+    if(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
+      message(FATAL_ERROR "Assertion failed: BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF must be off if BUILD_FAT_JAVA_LIB=ON")
+    endif()
     target_compile_definitions(${the_module} PRIVATE CVAPI_EXPORTS)
   endif()
 
diff --git a/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake b/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake
index 47e37a3b48347a52de5369c6b3e6409a93d8df6f..60662536f646664c9ada861685c4480bdb4821d7 100644
--- a/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake
+++ b/cmake/OpenCVUtils.cmake
@@ -452,6 +452,9 @@ macro(OCV_OPTION variable description value)
       option(${variable} "${description}" ${__value})
     endif()
   else()
+    if(DEFINED ${variable})
+      # TODO: message(WARNING "Option will be ignored: ${variable} (=${${variable}})")
+    endif()
     unset(${variable} CACHE)
   endif()
   unset(__condition)
diff --git a/modules/java/CMakeLists.txt b/modules/java/CMakeLists.txt
index d44b19523830bc1f436d1d9e99ac57a036e2c1c8..76bfe6235a0dc90693cf920115623b620d43a044 100644
--- a/modules/java/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/modules/java/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -442,8 +442,10 @@ if(BUILD_FAT_JAVA_LIB)
     foreach(_dep ${__deps})
       ocv_target_link_libraries(${the_module} LINK_PRIVATE -Wl,-force_load "${_dep}")
     endforeach()
-  else()
+  elseif(((CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX OR UNIX) OR (OPENCV_FORCE_FAT_JAVA_LIB_LD_RULES)) AND (NOT OPENCV_SKIP_FAT_JAVA_LIB_LD_RULES))
     ocv_target_link_libraries(${the_module} LINK_PRIVATE -Wl,-whole-archive ${__deps} -Wl,-no-whole-archive)
+  else()
+    ocv_target_link_libraries(${the_module} LINK_PRIVATE ${__deps})
   endif()
   ocv_target_link_libraries(${the_module} LINK_PRIVATE ${__extradeps} ${OPENCV_LINKER_LIBS})
 else()
@@ -480,8 +482,9 @@ if(ENABLE_SOLUTION_FOLDERS)
   set_target_properties(${the_module} PROPERTIES FOLDER "bindings")
 endif()
 
-if(ANDROID)
+if(BUILD_FAT_JAVA_LIB)
   ocv_install_target(${the_module} OPTIONAL EXPORT OpenCVModules
+          RUNTIME DESTINATION ${OPENCV_BIN_INSTALL_PATH} COMPONENT java
           LIBRARY DESTINATION ${OPENCV_LIB_INSTALL_PATH} COMPONENT java
           ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${OPENCV_LIB_INSTALL_PATH} COMPONENT java)
 else()