diff --git a/autobuild.sh b/autobuild.sh
index 782e21e5d..b9eb68b09 100755
--- a/autobuild.sh
+++ b/autobuild.sh
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ function build_native_dpdk() {
 	if [[ "$SPDK_TEST_CRYPTO" -eq 1 ]]; then
 		git clone --branch v0.54 --depth 1 https://github.com/intel/intel-ipsec-mb.git "$external_dpdk_base_dir/intel-ipsec-mb"
 		cd "$external_dpdk_base_dir/intel-ipsec-mb"
-		$MAKE $MAKEFLAGS all SHARED=n EXTRA_CFLAGS=-fPIC
+		$MAKE $MAKEFLAGS all SHARED=y EXTRA_CFLAGS=-fPIC
 		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("crypto")
 		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("crypto/aesni_mb")
 		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("crypto/qat")
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ function build_native_dpdk() {
 		DPDK_DRIVERS+=("common/qat")
 		dpdk_cflags+=" -I$external_dpdk_base_dir/intel-ipsec-mb"
 		dpdk_ldflags+=" -L$external_dpdk_base_dir/intel-ipsec-mb"
+		export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$external_dpdk_base_dir/intel-ipsec-mb
 	fi
 
 	if [[ "$SPDK_TEST_REDUCE" -eq 1 ]]; then
@@ -107,11 +108,15 @@ function build_native_dpdk() {
 
 	meson build-tmp --prefix="$external_dpdk_dir" --libdir lib \
 		-Denable_docs=false -Denable_kmods=false -Dtests=false \
-		-Dc_args="$dpdk_cflags $dpdk_ldflags" \
+		-Dc_link_args="$dpdk_ldflags" -Dc_args="$dpdk_cflags" \
 		-Dmachine=native -Ddisable_drivers=$(printf "%s," "${DPDK_DISABLED_DRIVERS[@]}")
 	ninja -C "$external_dpdk_base_dir/build-tmp" $MAKEFLAGS
 	ninja -C "$external_dpdk_base_dir/build-tmp" $MAKEFLAGS install
 
+	# Save this path. In tests are run using autorun.sh then autotest.sh
+	# script will be unaware of LD_LIBRARY_PATH and will fail tests.
+	echo "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" > /tmp/spdk-ld-path
+
 	cd "$orgdir"
 }
 
diff --git a/autotest.sh b/autotest.sh
index d11525e6e..c5fe18b9c 100755
--- a/autotest.sh
+++ b/autotest.sh
@@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ fi
 # always test with SPDK shared objects.
 export SPDK_LIB_DIR="$rootdir/build/lib"
 
+# Autotest.sh, as part of autorun.sh, runs in a different
+# shell process than autobuild.sh. Use helper file to pass
+# over env variable containing libraries paths.
+if [[ -e /tmp/spdk-ld-path ]]; then
+	source /tmp/spdk-ld-path
+fi
+
 source "$1"
 source "$rootdir/test/common/autotest_common.sh"
 source "$rootdir/test/nvmf/common.sh"