diff --git a/cmake/DetectOptions.cmake b/cmake/DetectOptions.cmake
index fed08da4c2..55ed506970 100644
--- a/cmake/DetectOptions.cmake
+++ b/cmake/DetectOptions.cmake
@@ -394,6 +394,9 @@ if(ADIOS2_USE_SST AND NOT WIN32)
         }]=]
     ADIOS2_HAVE_MPI_CLIENT_SERVER)
     unset(CMAKE_REQUIRED_LIBRARIES)
+    if (ADIOS2_HAVE_MPI_CLIENT_SERVER)
+      set(ADIOS2_SST_HAVE_MPI TRUE)
+    endif()
   endif()
   # UCX
   if(ADIOS2_USE_UCX STREQUAL AUTO)
diff --git a/source/adios2/toolkit/sst/CMakeLists.txt b/source/adios2/toolkit/sst/CMakeLists.txt
index b42230ce3e..5f6a1875e2 100644
--- a/source/adios2/toolkit/sst/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/source/adios2/toolkit/sst/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ if(ADIOS2_HAVE_ZFP)
   target_link_libraries(sst PRIVATE zfp::zfp)
 endif()
 
-if(ADIOS2_HAVE_MPI_CLIENT_SERVER)
+if(ADIOS2_SST_HAVE_MPI)
   target_sources(sst PRIVATE dp/mpi_dp.c)
   target_link_libraries(sst PRIVATE MPI::MPI_C)
 endif()