diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_7.4.4.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_7.4.4.bb
index 48149304c6..68005c0bb5 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_7.4.4.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/php/php_7.4.4.bb
@@ -111,6 +111,17 @@ export PHP_NATIVE_DIR = "${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}"
 export PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN = "${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/php"
 CFLAGS += " -D_GNU_SOURCE -g -DPTYS_ARE_GETPT -DPTYS_ARE_SEARCHED -I${STAGING_INCDIR}/apache2"
 
+# link against librt (libc) if opcache is specified in order to avoid the
+# following error:
+# Failed loading /usr/lib/php7/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/opcache.so: /usr/lib/php7/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20190902/opcache.so: undefined symbol: shm_unlink
+LDFLAGS += "${@ " -lrt " if bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'opcache', 'true', 'false', d) else "" }"
+
+# Adding these flags enables dynamic library support, which is disabled by
+# default when cross compiling
+# See https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60109
+CFLAGS += " -DHAVE_LIBDL "
+LDFLAGS += " -ldl "
+
 EXTRA_OEMAKE = "INSTALL_ROOT=${D}"
 
 acpaths = ""