diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 2665024426d..146c95a478f 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -2021,12 +2021,7 @@ dbus_programs += executable(
         link_with : [libcore,
                      libshared],
         dependencies : [versiondep,
-                        threads,
-                        librt,
-                        libseccomp,
-                        libselinux,
-                        libmount,
-                        libblkid],
+                        libseccomp],
         install_rpath : rootlibexecdir,
         install : true,
         install_dir : rootlibexecdir)
@@ -2042,12 +2037,7 @@ public_programs += executable(
         link_with : [libcore,
                      libshared],
         dependencies : [versiondep,
-                        threads,
-                        librt,
-                        libseccomp,
-                        libselinux,
-                        libmount,
-                        libblkid],
+                        libseccomp],
         install_rpath : rootlibexecdir,
         install : conf.get('ENABLE_ANALYZE'))
 
diff --git a/src/core/meson.build b/src/core/meson.build
index d229d46779a..87456712131 100644
--- a/src/core/meson.build
+++ b/src/core/meson.build
@@ -167,12 +167,18 @@ load_fragment_gperf_nulstr_c = custom_target(
         command : [awk, '-f', '@INPUT0@', '@INPUT1@'],
         capture : true)
 
-libcore = static_library(
-        'core',
+libcore_name = 'systemd-core-@0@'.format(meson.project_version())
+
+libcore = shared_library(
+        libcore_name,
         libcore_sources,
         load_fragment_gperf_c,
         load_fragment_gperf_nulstr_c,
         include_directories : includes,
+        c_args : ['-fvisibility=default'],
+        link_args : ['-shared',
+                     '-Wl,--version-script=' + libshared_sym_path],
+        link_with : libshared,
         dependencies : [versiondep,
                         threads,
                         libdl,
@@ -184,8 +190,10 @@ libcore = static_library(
                         libapparmor,
                         libselinux,
                         libmount,
+                        libblkid,
                         libacl],
-        build_by_default : false)
+        install : true,
+        install_dir : rootlibexecdir)
 
 core_includes = [includes, include_directories('.')]
 
diff --git a/src/shared/meson.build b/src/shared/meson.build
index 5dc58a863d4..c2e02339746 100644
--- a/src/shared/meson.build
+++ b/src/shared/meson.build
@@ -465,13 +465,13 @@ libshared_static = static_library(
 libshared = shared_library(
         libshared_name,
         include_directories : includes,
+        c_args : ['-fvisibility=default'],
         link_args : ['-shared',
                      '-Wl,--version-script=' + libshared_sym_path],
         link_whole : [libshared_static,
                       libbasic,
                       libbasic_gcrypt,
                       libsystemd_static],
-        c_args : ['-fvisibility=default'],
         dependencies : libshared_deps,
         install : true,
         install_dir : rootlibexecdir)
diff --git a/src/test/meson.build b/src/test/meson.build
index 9a1c481f226..364cd3dd3fd 100644
--- a/src/test/meson.build
+++ b/src/test/meson.build
@@ -419,7 +419,8 @@ tests += [
           libmount,
           libxz,
           liblz4,
-          libblkid],
+          libblkid,
+          libselinux],
          [core_includes, journal_includes, udev_includes]],
 
         [['src/test/test-prioq.c']],
diff --git a/tools/oss-fuzz.sh b/tools/oss-fuzz.sh
index 8a19da665eb..244eb83906b 100755
--- a/tools/oss-fuzz.sh
+++ b/tools/oss-fuzz.sh
@@ -67,7 +67,9 @@ df="$build/dns-fuzzing"
 git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CZ-NIC/dns-fuzzing "$df"
 zip -jqr "$OUT/fuzz-dns-packet_seed_corpus.zip" "$df/packet"
 
-install -Dt "$OUT/src/shared/" "$build"/src/shared/libsystemd-shared-*.so
+install -Dt "$OUT/src/shared/" \
+        "$build"/src/shared/libsystemd-shared-*.so \
+        "$build"/src/core/libsystemd-core-*.so
 
 wget -O "$OUT/fuzz-json.dict" https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rc0r/afl-fuzz/master/dictionaries/json.dict