diff --git a/recipes/libs/zlib/recipe.toml b/recipes/libs/zlib/recipe.toml
index 626018c7..c60f96c0 100644
--- a/recipes/libs/zlib/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/libs/zlib/recipe.toml
@@ -5,14 +5,11 @@ blake3 = "ec1abc6f672a7a6ee6f49ba544cc9529f73121b478310473be44fee22a140ebf"
 [build]
 template = "custom"
 script = """
-DYNAMIC_INIT
-COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=(--prefix="/usr")
-if [ "${COOKBOOK_DYNAMIC}" == "1" ]
-then
-    COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS+=(--shared)
-else
-    COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS+=(--static)
-fi
+DYNAMIC_STATIC_INIT
+COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=(--prefix="/usr" --shared --static)
+# TODO: fPIC is the default on linux but not on redox and
+#       required by libz-sys as zlib statically linked there
+export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fPIC"
 # See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21396988/zlib-build-not-configuring-properly-with-cross-compiler-ignores-ar.
 env CHOST="${TARGET}" "${COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE}" "${COOKBOOK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS[@]}"
 "${COOKBOOK_MAKE}" -j "$(nproc)"
@@ -22,4 +19,4 @@ if [ -e "${solib}" ]
 then
     patchelf --set-soname 'libz.so.1.3' "${solib}"
 fi
-"""
\ No newline at end of file
+"""