diff --git a/examples/otlp/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/otlp/CMakeLists.txt
index 8dad0101fc..e6102611b6 100644
--- a/examples/otlp/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/examples/otlp/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ if(WITH_OTLP_HTTP)
     target_compile_definitions(example_otlp_instrumented_http
                                PRIVATE OPENTELEMETRY_BUILD_IMPORT_DLL)
     target_link_libraries(example_otlp_instrumented_http
-                          opentelemetry-cpp::opentelemetry_cpp)
+                          PRIVATE opentelemetry-cpp::opentelemetry_cpp)
   else()
     target_link_libraries(
       example_otlp_instrumented_http