diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d600ca5..7f43569 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ elif test "x${hdf5}" = xyes; then
     FCFLAGS="${HDF5_CFLAGS} ${FCFLAGS}"
     LIBS="${HDF5_LIBS} -lhdf5_hl ${LIBS}"
     PKG_HDF5="hdf5"
+    PKG_LIBS="${PKG_LIBS} -lhdf5_hl"
   else
     PKG_HDF5=""
     PKG_LIBS="${PKG_LIBS} ${HDF5_LIBS} -lhdf5_hl"
diff --git a/trexio.pc.in b/trexio.pc.in
index 3dde84d..69484d4 100644
--- a/trexio.pc.in
+++ b/trexio.pc.in
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ Description: TREX Input/Output library
 URL: https://github.com/trex-coe/trexio
 Version: @PACKAGE_VERSION@
 Cflags:  -I${includedir} @PKG_CFLAGS@
-Libs: -L${libdir} -lm @PKG_LIBS@
+Libs: -L${libdir} -ltrexio -lm @PKG_LIBS@ 
 Requires: @PKG_HDF5@
+Requires.private: @PKG_HDF5@