diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index b6b4553b5..1308373a8 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ test_8_byte_atomic = '''
 int main(void)
 {
   int64_t eight;
-  __atomic_store_n(&eight, 123, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST);
+  __atomic_fetch_add(&eight, 123, __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST);
   return 0;
 }
 '''
@@ -166,16 +166,15 @@ int main(void)
 # operations on any reasonable architecture.
 if cc.links(
   test_8_byte_atomic,
-  name : '8-byte __atomic_store_n without libatomic')
+  name : '8-byte __atomic_fetch_add without libatomic')
   atomic_dep = dependency('', required: false)
 elif cc.links(
   test_8_byte_atomic,
   dependencies : libatomic,
-  name : '8-byte __atomic_store_n with libatomic')
+  name : '8-byte __atomic_fetch_add with libatomic')
   atomic_dep = libatomic
-elif get_option('pipewire-jack').enabled()
-  # Currently only required for the JACK backend
-  error('8-byte atomic operations are required for pipewire-jack')
+else
+  error('8-byte atomic operations are required')
 endif
 
 cdata = configuration_data()
diff --git a/pipewire-jack/src/meson.build b/pipewire-jack/src/meson.build
index 83e340ba5..386abc7f1 100644
--- a/pipewire-jack/src/meson.build
+++ b/pipewire-jack/src/meson.build
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ pipewire_jack = shared_library('jack',
     version : libversion,
     c_args : pipewire_jack_c_args,
     include_directories : [configinc, jack_inc],
-    dependencies : [pipewire_dep, atomic_dep, mathlib],
+    dependencies : [pipewire_dep, mathlib],
     install : true,
     install_dir : libjack_path,
 )
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ pipewire_jackserver = shared_library('jackserver',
     version : libversion,
     c_args : pipewire_jack_c_args,
     include_directories : [configinc, jack_inc],
-    dependencies : [pipewire_dep, atomic_dep, mathlib],
+    dependencies : [pipewire_dep, mathlib],
     install : true,
     install_dir : libjack_path,
 )
diff --git a/src/pipewire/meson.build b/src/pipewire/meson.build
index e80f36330..0fa6643a2 100644
--- a/src/pipewire/meson.build
+++ b/src/pipewire/meson.build
@@ -102,12 +102,12 @@ libpipewire = shared_library(pipewire_name, pipewire_sources,
   c_args : libpipewire_c_args,
   include_directories : [pipewire_inc, configinc, spa_inc],
   install : true,
-  dependencies : [dl_lib, mathlib, pthread_lib, libintl_dep, ],
+  dependencies : [dl_lib, mathlib, pthread_lib, libintl_dep, atomic_dep, ],
 )
 
 pipewire_dep = declare_dependency(link_with : libpipewire,
   include_directories : [pipewire_inc, configinc, spa_inc],
-  dependencies : [pthread_lib, ],
+  dependencies : [pthread_lib, atomic_dep, ],
 )
 
 pkgconfig.generate(filebase : 'lib@0@'.format(pipewire_name),