diff --git a/package/qt5/Config.in b/package/qt5/Config.in
index 3fb65f7c34..22fd0c0809 100644
--- a/package/qt5/Config.in
+++ b/package/qt5/Config.in
@@ -11,15 +11,16 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_QT5_JSCORE_AVAILABLE
 	depends on !BR2_ARM_CPU_ARMV4
 	default y
 
-comment "Qt5 needs a toolchain w/ wchar, NPTL, C++"
+comment "Qt5 needs a toolchain w/ wchar, NPTL, C++, dynamic library"
 	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_QT
-	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
+	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL || BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 
 menuconfig BR2_PACKAGE_QT5
 	bool "Qt5"
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS
 	depends on !BR2_PACKAGE_QT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE
 	help
diff --git a/package/qt5/qt5base/qt5base.mk b/package/qt5/qt5base/qt5base.mk
index e80c20c638..e783b4d42e 100644
--- a/package/qt5/qt5base/qt5base.mk
+++ b/package/qt5/qt5base/qt5base.mk
@@ -26,7 +26,8 @@ QT5BASE_CONFIGURE_OPTS += \
 	-no-iconv \
 	-system-zlib \
 	-system-pcre \
-	-no-pch
+	-no-pch \
+	-shared
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_ENABLE_DEBUG),y)
 QT5BASE_CONFIGURE_OPTS += -debug
@@ -34,14 +35,6 @@ else
 QT5BASE_CONFIGURE_OPTS += -release
 endif
 
-ifeq ($(BR2_STATIC_LIBS),y)
-QT5BASE_CONFIGURE_OPTS += -static
-else
-# We apparently can't build both the shared and static variants of the
-# library.
-QT5BASE_CONFIGURE_OPTS += -shared
-endif
-
 QT5BASE_CONFIGURE_OPTS += -largefile
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_QT5BASE_LICENSE_APPROVED),y)