diff --git a/packages/web/libmicrohttpd/package.mk b/packages/web/libmicrohttpd/package.mk
index 47eb6c9dfe..3f6005cff6 100644
--- a/packages/web/libmicrohttpd/package.mk
+++ b/packages/web/libmicrohttpd/package.mk
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ PKG_LONGDESC="A small C library that is supposed to make it easy to run an HTTP
 
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--disable-shared \
                            --enable-static \
+                           --disable-examples \
                            --disable-curl \
                            --enable-https"