diff --git a/recipes-deps/libgit2/libgit2.inc b/recipes-deps/libgit2/libgit2.inc
index 10958bd..bce48dd 100644
--- a/recipes-deps/libgit2/libgit2.inc
+++ b/recipes-deps/libgit2/libgit2.inc
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ SUMMARY = "the Git linkable library"
 HOMEPAGE = "http://libgit2.github.com/"
 LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-with-linking-exception"
 
-DEPENDS = "zlib"
+DEPENDS = "openssl zlib"
 
 inherit cmake