diff --git a/package/php/php.mk b/package/php/php.mk
index bd7d5a8c3c..49f02d7f20 100644
--- a/package/php/php.mk
+++ b/package/php/php.mk
@@ -35,6 +35,10 @@ ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS)$(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS),yy)
 PHP_STATIC_LIBS += -lpthread
 endif
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_LIBATOMIC),y)
+PHP_EXTRA_LIBS += -latomic
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(call qstrip,$(BR2_TARGET_LOCALTIME)),)
 PHP_LOCALTIME = UTC
 else