diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 4b0e976ff..a3904becc 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ deps_libpistache = [
 ]
 
 if get_option('PISTACHE_USE_RAPIDJSON')
-	deps_libpistache += dependency('RapidJSON', fallback: ['rapidjson', 'rapidjson_dep'])
+	rapidjson_dep = dependency('RapidJSON', fallback: ['rapidjson', 'rapidjson_dep'])
+	deps_libpistache += rapidjson_dep
 endif
 
 # Support Brotli compressed Content-Encoding responses...
diff --git a/src/meson.build b/src/meson.build
index c3a0283b7..309a6d4ae 100644
--- a/src/meson.build
+++ b/src/meson.build
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ libpistache = library(
 pistache_dep = declare_dependency(
 	compile_args: public_args,
 	include_directories: incl_pistache,
-	link_with: libpistache
+	link_with: libpistache,
+	dependencies: [ rapidjson_dep ]
 )
 
 if meson.version().version_compare('>=0.54.0')