diff --git a/recipes/cairodemo/recipe.sh b/recipes/cairodemo/recipe.sh
index c720d9e51..5326f6f36 100755
--- a/recipes/cairodemo/recipe.sh
+++ b/recipes/cairodemo/recipe.sh
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ function recipe_build {
     export LDFLAGS="-L$sysroot/lib"
     export CPPFLAGS="-I$sysroot/include"
     set -x
-    "${CXX}" -I "$sysroot/include" -L "$sysroot/lib" cairodemo.c -o cairodemo -lorbital -lcairo -lpixman-1 -lfreetype -lpng -lz
+    "${CXX}" -I "$sysroot/include" -L "$sysroot/lib" cairodemo.c -o cairodemo -static -lorbital -lcairo -lpixman-1 -lfreetype -lpng -lz
     set +x
     skip=1
 }
diff --git a/recipes/eduke32/recipe.sh b/recipes/eduke32/recipe.sh
index c6e07caff..f43d65254 100644
--- a/recipes/eduke32/recipe.sh
+++ b/recipes/eduke32/recipe.sh
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ function recipe_update {
 
 function recipe_build {
     sysroot="$(realpath ../sysroot)"
-    export LDFLAGS="-L$sysroot/lib"
     export CFLAGS="-I$sysroot/include -I$sysroot/include/SDL"
-    export SDLCONFIG="$sysroot/bin/sdl-config"
+    export LDFLAGS="-L$sysroot/lib -static"
+    export SDLCONFIG="$sysroot/bin/sdl-config --prefix=$sysroot"
 
     PLATFORM=REDOX make -j"$(nproc)"
     skip=1