diff --git a/SConstruct b/SConstruct
index 10e12db..2ecfc4f 100644
--- a/SConstruct
+++ b/SConstruct
@@ -1114,11 +1114,11 @@ else:
     }
 
     python_env = env.Clone()
-    vars = sysconfig.get_config_vars('CC', 'CXX', 'OPT', 'BASECFLAGS', 'CCSHARED', 'LDSHARED', 'SO', 'INCLUDEPY', 'LDFLAGS')
+    vars = sysconfig.get_config_vars('CC', 'CXX', 'OPT', 'BASECFLAGS', 'CCSHARED', 'LDSHARED', 'SO', 'INCLUDEPY', 'LDFLAGS', 'LIBRARY')
     for i in range(len(vars)):
         if vars[i] is None:
             vars[i] = []
-    (cc, cxx, opt, basecflags, ccshared, ldshared, so_ext, includepy, ldflags) = vars
+    (cc, cxx, opt, basecflags, ccshared, ldshared, so_ext, includepy, ldflags, pylibs) = vars
     # FIXME: build of python wrappers doesn't pickup flags set for coveraging, manually add them here
     if env['coveraging']:
         basecflags += ' -coverage'
@@ -1145,7 +1145,8 @@ else:
                        CPPPATH=[includepy],
                        CPPFLAGS=opt,
                        CFLAGS=basecflags,
-                       CXXFLAGS=basecflags)
+                       CXXFLAGS=basecflags,
+                       LIBS=pylibs)
 
     python_objects={}
     python_compiled_libs = {}