diff --git a/recipes/dev/rust/recipe.toml b/recipes/dev/rust/recipe.toml
index 16e406ebe..f5e5619ce 100644
--- a/recipes/dev/rust/recipe.toml
+++ b/recipes/dev/rust/recipe.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export LDFLAGS_x86_64_unknown_redox="${LDFLAGS}" # LLVM
 export CARGO_TARGET_X86_64_UNKNOWN_REDOX_RUSTFLAGS="\
 -Clink-args=-L${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}/lib \
 -Clink-args=-Wl,-rpath-link,${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}/lib \
--Clink-args=-lz"
+-Clink-args=-lz -Clink-args=-lzstd"
 # Hack for Rust errorneusly running `llvm-config --version` on cross compiled llvm-config
 cat "${COOKBOOK_ROOT}/bin/x86_64-unknown-redox-llvm-config" > "${COOKBOOK_SYSROOT}/bin/llvm-config"
 # Linker flags for stage1 compiler (host -> host)