diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c57190ab..115a06ee 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
 /deps/bzip2/bin/
 /deps/bzip2/man/
 /deps/flac/bin/
-/deps/flac/include/FLAC++/
-/deps/flac/lib/libFLAC++.a
 /deps/iconv/bin/
 /deps/iconv/include/*charset.h
 /deps/iconv/lib/libcharset.a
diff --git a/build.py b/build.py
index 5f5451a5..ff7ab1fd 100755
--- a/build.py
+++ b/build.py
@@ -688,6 +688,8 @@ class FfiTarget(ConfigureMakeStaticDependencyTarget):
 class FlacTarget(ConfigureMakeStaticDependencyTarget):
     def __init__(self, name='flac'):
         super().__init__(name)
+        self.options['--enable-cpplibs'] = 'no'
+        self.pkg_libs = {'flac': '-logg'}
 
     def prepare_source(self, builder: 'Builder'):
         builder.download_source(