diff --git a/package/modem-manager/Config.in b/package/modem-manager/Config.in
index 8489e6fc86..6990996a86 100644
--- a/package/modem-manager/Config.in
+++ b/package/modem-manager/Config.in
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_MODEM_MANAGER
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # libglib2 and gnutls
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # dbus, libglib2
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # dbus
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_DBUS
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGLIB2
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBGUDEV if BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ comment "QRTR support needs a toolchain w/ headers >= 4.15"
 
 endif
 
-comment "modemmanager needs a toolchain w/ wchar, threads"
-	depends on !BR2_USE_WCHAR || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS
+comment "modemmanager needs a toolchain w/ wchar, threads, dynamic library"
+	depends on !BR2_USE_WCHAR || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || \
+		BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU