diff --git a/package/sconeserver/Config.in b/package/sconeserver/Config.in
index 7027bd9a15..e984801de5 100644
--- a/package/sconeserver/Config.in
+++ b/package/sconeserver/Config.in
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ menuconfig BR2_PACKAGE_SCONESERVER
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS_NPTL
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # dlopen()
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_PCRE
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
 	help
 	  Sconeserver is a modular, object-orientated and extremely
 	  versatile network server framework for GNU/Linux and
diff --git a/package/sconeserver/sconeserver.mk b/package/sconeserver/sconeserver.mk
index 12cadbfd20..c160c8bf7c 100644
--- a/package/sconeserver/sconeserver.mk
+++ b/package/sconeserver/sconeserver.mk
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ SCONESERVER_LICENSE = GPL-2.0+
 SCONESERVER_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
 # fetching from Git, we need to generate the configure script
 SCONESERVER_AUTORECONF = YES
-SCONESERVER_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf pcre
+SCONESERVER_DEPENDENCIES = host-pkgconf pcre zlib
 # disable markdown module because its git submodule cmark
 # https://github.com/sconemad/sconeserver/tree/master/markdown
 # has no cross-compile support provided by the sconeserver build system