diff --git a/ports/civetweb/portfile.cmake b/ports/civetweb/portfile.cmake
index 35cc9d163592b4..caa0b3113035c8 100644
--- a/ports/civetweb/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/civetweb/portfile.cmake
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ vcpkg_cmake_configure(
         -DCIVETWEB_ENABLE_SSL_DYNAMIC_LOADING=OFF
         -DCIVETWEB_ENABLE_WEBSOCKETS=ON
         -DCIVETWEB_ALLOW_WARNINGS=ON
+        -DCIVETWEB_ENABLE_ZLIB=ON
         "-DVERSION=${VERSION}"
         ${FEATURE_OPTIONS}
 )
diff --git a/ports/civetweb/vcpkg.json b/ports/civetweb/vcpkg.json
index 9c097815586cf3..bb2dd92aa34776 100644
--- a/ports/civetweb/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/civetweb/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "civetweb",
   "version": "1.16",
-  "port-version": 1,
+  "port-version": 2,
   "description": "Easy to use, powerful, C/C++ embeddable web server.",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb",
   "supports": "!uwp",
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@
     {
       "name": "vcpkg-cmake-config",
       "host": true
-    }
+    },
+    "zlib"
   ],
   "features": {
     "ssl": {
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index bd0321edeaed18..0b2287bea5907d 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -1586,7 +1586,7 @@
     },
     "civetweb": {
       "baseline": "1.16",
-      "port-version": 1
+      "port-version": 2
     },
     "cjson": {
       "baseline": "1.7.16",
diff --git a/versions/c-/civetweb.json b/versions/c-/civetweb.json
index 3faace72dd04d0..1e1a69ef06c85a 100644
--- a/versions/c-/civetweb.json
+++ b/versions/c-/civetweb.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "e4dd629e48dc2fc142165bf825c99512544b568c",
+      "version": "1.16",
+      "port-version": 2
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "23fa18e460290d6b0629ca6487f69b56845cfbda",
       "version": "1.16",