diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b66c263d54..c2f5f96b35 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -2896,13 +2896,12 @@ endif()
 
 # Clean up the different lists
 listtostr(EXTRA_LIBS _EXTRA_LIBS "-l")
-set(SDL_STATIC_LIBS ${EXTRA_LDFLAGS} ${_EXTRA_LIBS})
-list(REMOVE_DUPLICATES SDL_STATIC_LIBS)
-listtostr(SDL_STATIC_LIBS _SDL_STATIC_LIBS)
-set(SDL_STATIC_LIBS ${_SDL_STATIC_LIBS})
+set(SDL_PC_STATIC_LIBS ${EXTRA_LDFLAGS} ${_EXTRA_LIBS})
+list(REMOVE_DUPLICATES SDL_PC_STATIC_LIBS)
+listtostr(SDL_PC_STATIC_LIBS SDL_PC_STATIC_LIBS)
 listtostr(SDL_PC_LIBS SDL_PC_LIBS)
 listtostr(SDL_PC_CFLAGS SDL_PC_CFLAGS)
-string(REGEX REPLACE "-lSDL3( |$)" "-l${sdl_static_libname} " SDL_STATIC_LIBS "${SDL_STATIC_LIBS}")
+string(REGEX REPLACE "-lSDL3( |$)" "-l${sdl_static_libname} " SDL_PC_STATIC_LIBS "${SDL_PC_STATIC_LIBS}")
 if(NOT SDL_SHARED)
   string(REGEX REPLACE "-lSDL3( |$)" "-l${sdl_static_libname} " SDL_PC_LIBS "${SDL_PC_LIBS}")
 endif()
@@ -2913,7 +2912,7 @@ endif()
 
 # message(STATUS "SDL_PC_CFLAGS:   ${SDL_PC_CFLAGS}")
 # message(STATUS "SDL_PC_LIBS:     ${SDL_PC_LIBS}")
-# message(STATUS "SDL_STATIC_LIBS: ${SDL_STATIC_LIBS}")
+# message(STATUS "SDL_PC_STATIC_LIBS: ${SDL_PC_STATIC_LIBS}")
 
 configure_file(cmake/sdl3.pc.in sdl3.pc @ONLY)
 
diff --git a/cmake/sdl3.pc.in b/cmake/sdl3.pc.in
index 419bd1715c..5bcef6a67d 100644
--- a/cmake/sdl3.pc.in
+++ b/cmake/sdl3.pc.in
@@ -10,5 +10,5 @@ Description: Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library des
 Version: @SDL_VERSION@
 Requires.private: @PKGCONFIG_DEPENDS@
 Conflicts:
-Libs: -L${libdir} @SDL_RLD_FLAGS@ @SDL_PC_LIBS@ @PKGCONFIG_LIBS_PRIV@ @SDL_STATIC_LIBS@
+Libs: -L${libdir} @SDL_RLD_FLAGS@ @SDL_PC_LIBS@ @PKGCONFIG_LIBS_PRIV@ @SDL_PC_STATIC_LIBS@
 Cflags: -I${includedir} -I${includedir}/SDL3 @SDL_PC_CFLAGS@