diff --git a/packages/addons/service/mariadb/package.mk b/packages/addons/service/mariadb/package.mk
index 03c19e580d..1dbeb1d6bf 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/mariadb/package.mk
+++ b/packages/addons/service/mariadb/package.mk
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ PKG_SHA256="44bdc36eeb02888296e961718bae808f3faab268ed49160a785248db60500c00"
 PKG_LICENSE="GPL2"
 PKG_SITE="https://mariadb.org"
 PKG_URL="https://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}/source/${PKG_NAME}-${PKG_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain:host ncurses:host"
+PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="toolchain:host ncurses:host openssl:host"
 PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain binutils bzip2 libaio libxml2 lzo ncurses openssl systemd zlib mariadb:host"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL."
 PKG_LONGDESC="MariaDB (${PKG_VERSION}) is a fast SQL database server and a drop-in replacement for MySQL."