diff --git a/interpreter/CMakeLists.txt b/interpreter/CMakeLists.txt
index 0885d6e74a66b..a6a9086805499 100644
--- a/interpreter/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/interpreter/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ set(LLVM_ENABLE_FFI OFF CACHE BOOL "")
 set(LLVM_ENABLE_OCAMLDOC OFF CACHE BOOL "")
 set(LLVM_ENABLE_Z3_SOLVER OFF CACHE BOOL "")
 set(LLVM_ENABLE_WARNINGS OFF CACHE BOOL "")
+set(LLVM_ENABLE_ZLIB FORCE_ON CACHE STRING "Always enabled because it's already a dependency of ROOT" FORCE)
+set(LLVM_ENABLE_ZSTD FORCE_ON CACHE STRING "Always enabled because it's already a dependency of ROOT" FORCE)
 set(CLANG_ENABLE_STATIC_ANALYZER OFF CACHE BOOL "")
 set(CLANG_ENABLE_ARCMT OFF CACHE BOOL "")
 set(LLVM_INCLUDE_TESTS OFF CACHE BOOL "")