_LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_AF_PACKET) += -lrte_pmd_af_packet
_LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_NULL) += -lrte_pmd_null
+# QAT PMD has a dependency on libcrypto (from openssl) for calculating HMAC precomputes
+_LDLIBS-$(CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT) += -lrte_pmd_qat -lcrypto
+
endif # ! $(CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB)
endif # ! CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_COMBINE_LIBS