diff --git a/old-configure.in b/old-configure.in
index 69fe6cb4157d..dcefe4225680 100644
--- a/old-configure.in
+++ b/old-configure.in
@@ -800,7 +800,7 @@ case "$target" in
         fi
         # Silence VS2017 15.5+ TR1 deprecation warnings hit by older gtest versions
         CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -D_SILENCE_TR1_NAMESPACE_DEPRECATION_WARNING"
-        LIBS="$LIBS kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winmm.lib wsock32.lib advapi32.lib secur32.lib"
+        LIBS="$LIBS user32.lib gdi32.lib winmm.lib wsock32.lib advapi32.lib secur32.lib"
         MOZ_DEBUG_LDFLAGS='-DEBUG'
         WARNINGS_AS_ERRORS='-WX'
         # Use a higher optimization level for clang-cl, so we can come closer