diff --git a/components/nghttp/CMakeLists.txt b/components/nghttp/CMakeLists.txt
index b1a4b1642..c1c4d8094 100644
--- a/components/nghttp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/components/nghttp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -24,3 +24,5 @@ set(COMPONENT_SRCS "nghttp2/lib/nghttp2_buf.c"
                    "port/http_parser.c")
 
 register_component()
+
+target_compile_definitions(${COMPONENT_LIB} PUBLIC "-DHAVE_CONFIG_H")
diff --git a/tools/cmake/build.cmake b/tools/cmake/build.cmake
index 2371c9462..af335d3f1 100644
--- a/tools/cmake/build.cmake
+++ b/tools/cmake/build.cmake
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ function(__build_set_default_build_specifications)
     unset(c_compile_options)
     unset(cxx_compile_options)
 
-    list(APPEND compile_definitions "-DHAVE_CONFIG_H" "-D_GNU_SOURCE")
+    list(APPEND compile_definitions "-D_GNU_SOURCE")
 
     list(APPEND compile_options     "-ffunction-sections"
                                     "-fdata-sections"