diff --git a/projects/apache-httpd/Dockerfile b/projects/apache-httpd/Dockerfile
index 3e416d0ef..4acfe8101 100644
--- a/projects/apache-httpd/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/apache-httpd/Dockerfile
@@ -15,10 +15,17 @@
 ################################################################################
 
 FROM gcr.io/oss-fuzz-base/base-builder
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y make autoconf automake libtool wget libpcre3 \
-                                         libpcre3-dev uuid-dev pkg-config libtool-bin \
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y make autoconf automake libtool wget \
+                                         uuid-dev pkg-config libtool-bin \
                                          libbsd-dev
 
+RUN svn co svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre2/code/trunk pcre2 && \
+    cd pcre2 && \
+    ./autogen.sh && \
+    ./configure && \
+    make && \
+    make install
+
 RUN git clone https://github.com/AdaLogics/fuzz-headers
 
 RUN wget https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/releases/download/R_2_4_1/expat-2.4.1.tar.gz && \
diff --git a/projects/apache-httpd/build.sh b/projects/apache-httpd/build.sh
index 28e1695d3..4584bfedb 100755
--- a/projects/apache-httpd/build.sh
+++ b/projects/apache-httpd/build.sh
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ svn checkout https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/apr/apr/trunk/ srclib/apr
 ./configure --with-included-apr --enable-pool-debug
 make
 
+static_pcre=($(find /src/pcre2 -name "libpcre2-8.a"))
+
 # Build the fuzzers
 for fuzzname in utils parse tokenize addr_parse uri request preq; do
   $CC $CFLAGS $LIB_FUZZING_ENGINE \
@@ -46,5 +48,5 @@ for fuzzname in utils parse tokenize addr_parse uri request preq; do
                       ./server/mpm/event/.libs/libevent.a \
                       ./os/unix/.libs/libos.a \
                       ./srclib/apr/.libs/libapr-2.a \
-    -Wl,--end-group -luuid -lpcre -lcrypt -lexpat -l:libbsd.a
+    -Wl,--end-group -luuid -lcrypt -lexpat -l:libbsd.a ${static_pcre}
 done