diff --git a/cold-redundancy/meson.build b/cold-redundancy/meson.build
index 4fd465e..3f2f8b8 100644
--- a/cold-redundancy/meson.build
+++ b/cold-redundancy/meson.build
@@ -5,12 +5,12 @@
     'util.cpp',
     dependencies: [
         boost,
+        libsystemd_dep,
         nlohmann_json_dep,
         phosphor_dbus_interfaces,
         phosphor_logging,
         pthread,
         sdbusplus,
-        systemd,
     ],
     include_directories: [
         '.',
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 33eadae..5dec932 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@
 endif
 
 systemd = dependency('systemd')
+libsystemd_dep = dependency('libsystemd')
 servicedir = systemd.get_variable('systemdsystemunitdir')
 
 services = [