diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 422e38c3..cf668fd1 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -138,9 +138,6 @@ if (NOT MSVC)
                     )
                     FetchContent_MakeAvailable(simdutf)
                     set(SIMDUTF_LIBRARIES simdutf::simdutf)
-                    if (NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
-                        set(simdutf_libfile " ${simdutf_BINARY_DIR}/build/libsimdutf.a")
-                    endif()
                 else()
                     message(SEND_ERROR "simdutf not found and the fallback downloader is not set! Install simdutf or use OPENDHT_DOWNLOAD_DEPS option")
                 endif()
diff --git a/opendht.pc.in b/opendht.pc.in
index d310afee..3becd0b1 100644
--- a/opendht.pc.in
+++ b/opendht.pc.in
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Name: OpenDHT
 Description: C++17 Distributed Hash Table library
 Version: @VERSION@
 Libs: -L${libdir} -lopendht -lfmt
-Libs.private: @http_lib@ @simdutf_libfile@ -pthread
+Libs.private: @http_lib@ -pthread
 Requires: gnutls >= 3.3@jsoncpp_lib@@openssl_lib@
 Requires.private: nettle >= 2.4@argon2_lib@@llhttp_lib@@iouring_lib@@simdutf_lib@
 Cflags: -I${includedir}