diff --git a/security/openiked/Makefile b/security/openiked/Makefile
index 4e5ee3b35455..a280721acf7e 100644
--- a/security/openiked/Makefile
+++ b/security/openiked/Makefile
@@ -1,36 +1,37 @@
 PORTNAME=	openiked
 PORTVERSION=	2.2
 PORTREVISION=	1
 CATEGORIES=	security net
 
 MAINTAINER=	marcel@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	IKEv2 daemon
 WWW=		https://github.com/xcllnt/openiked
 
 LICENSE=	ISCL
 
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libevent.so:devel/libevent
 
 USES=		autoreconf libtool ssl
 
 CONFLICTS_INSTALL=		openiked-portable[0-9]*
 
 USE_GITHUB=	yes
 GH_ACCOUNT=	xcllnt
 
 USE_RC_SUBR=	iked
 USERS=		_iked
 GROUPS=		_iked
 
 GNU_CONFIGURE=	yes
 GNU_CONFIGURE_MANPREFIX=${PREFIX}/share
 INSTALL_TARGET=	install-strip
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--with-libevent-dir=${PREFIX} --with-mantype=man
+CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	--without-zlib-version-check # fix build by disabling zlib version check
 
 post-install:
 	${MV} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/ikeca.cnf \
 	    ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/ikeca.cnf.sample
 	${MV} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/iked.conf \
 	    ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/iked.conf.sample
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>