diff --git a/package/mosquitto/mosquitto.mk b/package/mosquitto/mosquitto.mk
index 6de6fc804f..2643ffe018 100644
--- a/package/mosquitto/mosquitto.mk
+++ b/package/mosquitto/mosquitto.mk
@@ -48,8 +48,10 @@ MOSQUITTO_MAKE_OPTS += WITH_THREADING=no
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBOPENSSL),y)
-MOSQUITTO_DEPENDENCIES += libopenssl
-MOSQUITTO_MAKE_OPTS += WITH_TLS=yes
+MOSQUITTO_DEPENDENCIES += host-pkgconf libopenssl
+MOSQUITTO_MAKE_OPTS += \
+	WITH_TLS=yes \
+	STATIC_LIB_DEPS="`$(PKG_CONFIG_HOST_BINARY) --libs openssl`"
 else
 MOSQUITTO_MAKE_OPTS += WITH_TLS=no
 endif