diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/meson/meson/meson-wrapper b/meta/recipes-devtools/meson/meson/meson-wrapper
index d4b5187f8d..8fafaad975 100755
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/meson/meson/meson-wrapper
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/meson/meson/meson-wrapper
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ if [ -z "$OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT" ]; then
     echo "OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT not set; are you in a Yocto SDK environment?" >&2
 fi
 
+if [ -z "$SSL_CERT_DIR" ]; then
+    export SSL_CERT_DIR="${OECORE_NATIVE_SYSROOT}/etc/ssl/certs/"
+fi
+
 # If these are set to a cross-compile path, meson will get confused and try to
 # use them as native tools. Unset them to prevent this, as all the cross-compile
 # config is already in meson.cross.