diff --git a/recipes/archives/zstd/recipe.toml b/recipes/archives/zstd/recipe.toml
index 906848506..2e723f8c6 100644
--- a/recipes/archives/zstd/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/archives/zstd/recipe.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ patches = [
 [build]
 template = "custom"
 script = """
-DYNAMIC_INIT
+DYNAMIC_STATIC_INIT
 rsync -av --delete "${COOKBOOK_SOURCE}/" ./
 ${COOKBOOK_MAKE}
 ${COOKBOOK_MAKE} install DESTDIR="${COOKBOOK_STAGE}" prefix="/usr"
diff --git a/recipes/dev/lld21/recipe.toml b/recipes/dev/lld21/recipe.toml
index 1fa2cf5ac..e15dc3275 100644
--- a/recipes/dev/lld21/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/dev/lld21/recipe.toml
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ COOKBOOK_CMAKE_FLAGS+=(
     -DUNIX=1
 )
 
+if [ "${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}" = "/usr" ]; then
+# avoid linking as much as possible during bootstrapping
+    COOKBOOK_CMAKE_FLAGS+=(
+        -DLLVM_USE_STATIC_ZSTD=On
+    )
+fi
+
 COOKBOOK_SOURCE="$COOKBOOK_SOURCE/lld"
 
 cookbook_cmake
diff --git a/recipes/dev/llvm21/recipe.toml b/recipes/dev/llvm21/recipe.toml
index 6b87a1b42..041243edc 100644
--- a/recipes/dev/llvm21/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/dev/llvm21/recipe.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ shallow_clone = true
 [build]
 template = "custom"
 dependencies = [
-    "zlib",
+    "zstd",
     "libxml2",
 ]
 dev-dependencies = [
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ COOKBOOK_CMAKE_FLAGS+=(
     -DLLVM_TOOL_LLVM_COV_BUILD=On
     -DLLVM_TOOL_LLVM_PROFDATA_BUILD=On
     -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="$LLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD"
+    -DLLVM_ENABLE_ZLIB=Off
 
 # the rest of options that shared to clang
     -DCROSS_TOOLCHAIN_FLAGS_NATIVE="-DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$(realpath "${COOKBOOK_RECIPE}/native.cmake")"
@@ -59,6 +60,14 @@ COOKBOOK_CMAKE_FLAGS+=(
     -DUNIX=1
 )
 
+if [ "${COOKBOOK_HOST_SYSROOT}" = "/usr" ]; then
+# avoid linking as much as possible during bootstrapping
+    COOKBOOK_CMAKE_FLAGS+=(
+        -DLLVM_ENABLE_LIBXML2=Off
+        -DLLVM_USE_STATIC_ZSTD=On
+    )
+fi
+
 COOKBOOK_SOURCE="$COOKBOOK_SOURCE/llvm"
 cookbook_cmake
 """