diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c_1.5.0.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c_1.5.0.bb
index 24de6b8119..82aaf1bae6 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c_1.5.0.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/protobuf/protobuf-c_1.5.0.bb
@@ -36,3 +36,6 @@ RDEPENDS:${PN}-compiler = "protobuf-compiler"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-dev += "${PN}-compiler"
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
+
+# No 64bit atomics
+LDFLAGS:append:riscv32 = " -latomic"