diff --git a/projects/tmux/Dockerfile b/projects/tmux/Dockerfile
index 80f49b91c..a6ef1b3c2 100644
--- a/projects/tmux/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/tmux/Dockerfile
@@ -19,8 +19,11 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y autoconf automake bison pkg-config \
     ncurses-dev libtool
 
 RUN git clone https://github.com/libevent/libevent.git && \
-    cd libevent && ./autogen.sh && ./configure --disable-openssl --disable-shared && \
-    make clean && make all && make install
+    cd libevent && \
+    mkdir build && \
+    cd build && \
+    cmake -DEVENT__DISABLE_MBEDTLS=ON -DEVENT__DISABLE_OPENSSL=ON -DEVENT__LIBRARY_TYPE=STATIC ../ && \
+    make && make install
 
 RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmux/tmux.git
 RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tmux/tmux-fuzzing-corpus.git