diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index a71ece122..bb57c3e7d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2576,6 +2576,16 @@ if(WOLFSSL_INSTALL)
     set(includedir "\${prefix}/include")
     set(VERSION ${PROJECT_VERSION})
 
+    # Setting libm in Libs.private of wolfssl.pc.
+    # See "Link Libraries" in above about `m` insertion to LINK_LIBRARIES
+    get_target_property(_wolfssl_dep_libs wolfssl LINK_LIBRARIES)
+    list(FIND _wolfssl_dep_libs m _dep_libm)
+    if ("${_dep_libm}" GREATER -1)
+      set(LIBM -lm)
+    else()
+      set(LIBM)
+    endif()
+
     configure_file(support/wolfssl.pc.in ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/support/wolfssl.pc @ONLY)
     install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/support/wolfssl.pc
     DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR}/pkgconfig)
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index dbb7c5977..d505dd67c 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -9172,6 +9172,7 @@ AC_SUBST([AM_LDFLAGS])
 AC_SUBST([AM_CCASFLAGS])
 AC_SUBST([LIB_ADD])
 AC_SUBST([LIB_STATIC_ADD])
+AC_SUBST([LIBM])
 
 # FINAL
 AC_CONFIG_FILES([stamp-h], [echo timestamp > stamp-h])
diff --git a/support/wolfssl.pc.in b/support/wolfssl.pc.in
index df7d387b9..19aa4431c 100644
--- a/support/wolfssl.pc.in
+++ b/support/wolfssl.pc.in
@@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ Name: wolfssl
 Description: wolfssl C library.
 Version: @VERSION@
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lwolfssl
-Libs.private: -lm
+Libs.private: @LIBM@
 Cflags: -I${includedir}