diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/sniffers/sngrep/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/sniffers/sngrep/default.nix
index f1661582549e..1e841d10327f 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/sniffers/sngrep/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/sniffers/sngrep/default.nix
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--enable-unicode"
     "--enable-ipv6"
     "--enable-eep"
+    "--with-openssl"
   ];
 
   preConfigure = ''