diff --git a/projects/varnish/Dockerfile b/projects/varnish/Dockerfile
index 8a3f75f54..7bd362ade 100644
--- a/projects/varnish/Dockerfile
+++ b/projects/varnish/Dockerfile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
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 FROM gcr.io/oss-fuzz-base/base-builder
-RUN apt-get update && apt install -y automake autoconf libtool pkg-config python3-docutils python3-sphinx libedit-dev libpcre3-dev libncurses-dev
+RUN apt-get update && apt install -y automake autoconf libtool pkg-config python3-docutils python3-sphinx libedit-dev libpcre2-dev libncurses-dev
 RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/varnishcache/varnish-cache
 COPY build.sh $SRC
 COPY patch.diff $SRC
diff --git a/projects/varnish/build.sh b/projects/varnish/build.sh
index 851a7fb1e..e7550005b 100755
--- a/projects/varnish/build.sh
+++ b/projects/varnish/build.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
 git apply --ignore-whitespace $SRC/patch.diff
 # build project
 ./autogen.sh
-./configure
-make -j$(nproc)
+./configure PCRE2_LIBS=-l:libpcre2-8.a
+make -j$(nproc) -C include/
+make -j$(nproc) -C lib/libvarnish/
+make -j$(nproc) -C lib/libvgz/
+make -j$(nproc) -C bin/varnishd/ VSC_main.c esi_parse_fuzzer
 cp bin/varnishd/*_fuzzer $OUT/