From 97f518e19342d60468c2e8b1b3ce735d4f132652 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Joshua=20Vanda=C3=ABle?= <joshua@vandaele.software>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 00:55:45 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] cmake: reference OpenSSL and ZLIB imported targets only when
 enabled

This otherwise broke building on a parent with a static library which is
available but disabled (e.g. CURL_ZLIB is set to OFF but ZLIB::ZLIB
exists)

Closes #20217
---
 CMakeLists.txt | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 8e5383ac98..e42a3f7da0 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1799,7 +1799,14 @@ endif()
 # before dependencies detected via curl's custom Find modules, and breaks
 # linkers sensitive to lib order. There must be a better solution to this.
 if(CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID STREQUAL "GNU")
-  foreach(_lib IN ITEMS OpenSSL::Crypto ZLIB::ZLIB)
+  set(_libs "")
+  if(USE_OPENSSL)
+    list(APPEND _libs OpenSSL::Crypto)
+  endif()
+  if(HAVE_LIBZ)
+    list(APPEND _libs ZLIB::ZLIB)
+  endif()
+  foreach(_lib IN LISTS _libs)
     if(TARGET "${_lib}")
       add_library(CURL::${_lib} INTERFACE IMPORTED)
       get_target_property(_libname "${_lib}" LOCATION)