diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c2540f689..f2fa757a5 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ if(BUILD_CLIENT)
     endif()
     find_package(Sphinx)
     find_package(PdfLatex)
-
+    find_package(OpenSSL REQUIRED VERSION 1.0)
     find_package(SQLite3 3.8.0 REQUIRED)
     # On some OS, we want to use our own, not the system sqlite
     if (USE_OUR_OWN_SQLITE3)
@@ -197,6 +197,8 @@ if(BUILD_CLIENT)
         if (WIN32)
             add_definitions(-DSQLITE_API=__declspec\(dllimport\))
         endif()
+
+
     endif()
 
    find_package(ZLIB)
diff --git a/src/libsync/CMakeLists.txt b/src/libsync/CMakeLists.txt
index 9a90a175d..65209ffd4 100644
--- a/src/libsync/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/libsync/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ ENDIF(NOT APPLE)
 list(APPEND libsync_LINK_TARGETS
     ${QT_LIBRARIES}
     ocsync
+    OpenSSL::Crypto
+    OpenSSL::SSL
     ${OS_SPECIFIC_LINK_LIBRARIES}
 )