diff --git a/ponyc/trunk/PKGBUILD b/ponyc/trunk/PKGBUILD
index ef57800d527..ba3ead2d0a2 100644
--- a/ponyc/trunk/PKGBUILD
+++ b/ponyc/trunk/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,27 +3,30 @@
 
 pkgname=ponyc
 pkgver=0.18.0
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc='An actor model, capabilities, high performance programming language'
 url='http://ponylang.org/'
 arch=('x86_64')
 license=('BSD')
-depends=('llvm39-libs')
+depends=('llvm39-libs' 'openssl-1.0')
 makedepends=('llvm39' 'git')
 checkdepends=('pcre2')
 options=('!strip')
 optdepends=('pcre2: Needed for the regex package.')
-source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz")
-sha512sums=('972f2ec885bb809b64c8836eefa4c5f9150a3c66ed4f9f157aa1a6bbd8a794e529fd14bf93c23cd1543274d167699c497b3d89fa08607b1633106baccffdf3b7')
+source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/archive/$pkgver.tar.gz"
+        "pony-ssl-1.0-compat.patch")
+sha512sums=('972f2ec885bb809b64c8836eefa4c5f9150a3c66ed4f9f157aa1a6bbd8a794e529fd14bf93c23cd1543274d167699c497b3d89fa08607b1633106baccffdf3b7'
+            '3256eba9398cc0f0a933d7e54321476d2847a95ca627571cc0911e758d3b29cf4c91d6dbe2a7c1905a8d8c0b1cb7472c5139c7df2bb6e0530c9c15d49f06ade4')
 
 prepare() {
   cd ponyc-$pkgver
   sed -i 's/-Werror //' Makefile
+  patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/pony-ssl-1.0-compat.patch"
 }
 
 build() {
   cd ponyc-$pkgver
-  make config=release prefix=/usr arch=x86-64 verbose=
+  make default_pic=true config=release prefix=/usr arch=x86-64 verbose=
 
   mkdir docs
   build/release/ponyc packages/stdlib -rexpr -g -o docs
@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ build() {
 
 check() {
   cd ponyc-$pkgver
-  make config=release prefix=/usr arch=x86-64 verbose= test
+  make default_pic=true config=release prefix=/usr arch=x86-64 verbose= test
 }
 
 package() {
@@ -43,7 +46,7 @@ package() {
   #make config=release prefix=/usr destdir="$pkgdir"/usr/lib/pony/"$pkgver" install
 
   install -Dm755 build/release/ponyc "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/pony/"$pkgver"/bin/ponyc
-  install -Dm644 build/release/libponyrt-pic.a "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/libponyrt.a
+  install -Dm644 build/release/libponyrt-pic.a "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/libponyrt-pic.a
   install -Dm644 build/release/libponyc.a "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/libponyc.a
   install -Dm644 src/libponyrt/pony.h "$pkgdir"/usr/include/pony.h
 
diff --git a/ponyc/trunk/pony-ssl-1.0-compat.patch b/ponyc/trunk/pony-ssl-1.0-compat.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..93fdf973e52
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ponyc/trunk/pony-ssl-1.0-compat.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+diff --git a/packages/crypto/digest.pony b/packages/crypto/digest.pony
+index 9b88fb45..7afeb847 100644
+--- a/packages/crypto/digest.pony
++++ b/packages/crypto/digest.pony
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ use "path:/usr/local/opt/libressl/lib" if osx
+-use "lib:crypto"
++use "lib:/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0"
+ 
+ primitive _EVPMD
+ primitive _EVPCTX
+diff --git a/packages/crypto/hash_fn.pony b/packages/crypto/hash_fn.pony
+index b3edc5cf..2d48f99c 100644
+--- a/packages/crypto/hash_fn.pony
++++ b/packages/crypto/hash_fn.pony
+@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
+ use "path:/usr/local/opt/libressl/lib" if osx
+-use "lib:crypto"
++use "lib:/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0"
+ 
+ use "format"
+ 
+diff --git a/packages/net/ssl/_ssl_init.pony b/packages/net/ssl/_ssl_init.pony
+index 26a48d26..e861a086 100644
+--- a/packages/net/ssl/_ssl_init.pony
++++ b/packages/net/ssl/_ssl_init.pony
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ use "path:/usr/local/opt/libressl/lib" if osx
+-use "lib:ssl"
+-use "lib:crypto"
++use "lib:/usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0"
++use "lib:/usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0"
+ 
+ primitive _SSLInit
+   """