diff --git a/src/openflow/wscript b/src/openflow/wscript
index 42530a324..ff219c043 100644
--- a/src/openflow/wscript
+++ b/src/openflow/wscript
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ int main()
     conf.env['OPENFLOW'] = conf.check_nonfatal(fragment=test_code, lib='openflow', 
                                                libpath=conf.env['LIBPATH_OPENFLOW'],
                                                use='OPENFLOW DL XML2')
+    conf.env.append_value('LIB_OPENFLOW', 'dl')
     conf.report_optional_feature("openflow", "NS-3 OpenFlow Integration",
                                  conf.env['OPENFLOW'], "openflow library not found")
     if conf.env['OPENFLOW']: