diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 185ba5dce..c254b3bc2 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR})
 # SQLITE_DQS=0: This setting disables the double-quoted string literal misfeature.
 # SQLITE_ENABLE_DBPAGE_VTAB: Enables the SQLITE_DBPAGE virtual table. Warning: writing to the SQLITE_DBPAGE virtual table can very easily cause unrecoverably database corruption.
 # SQLITE_TEMP_STORE=2: Store temporary tables in memory for reduced IO and higher performance (can be overwritten by the user at runtime).
-# HAVE_READLINE: Enable readline support to allow easy editing, history and auto-completion
 # SQLITE_DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE=-16384: Allow up to 16 MiB of cache to be used by SQLite3 (default is 2000 kiB)
 # SQLITE_DEFAULT_SYNCHRONOUS=1: Use normal synchronous mode (default is 2)
 # SQLITE_LIKE_DOESNT_MATCH_BLOBS: This option causes the LIKE operator to only match BLOB values against BLOB values and TEXT values against TEXT values. This compile-time option makes SQLite run more efficiently when processing queries that use the LIKE operator.
@@ -37,7 +36,7 @@ set(CMAKE_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR})
 # HAVE_FDATASYNC: This option causes SQLite to try to use the fdatasync() system call to sync the database file to disk when committing a transaction. Syncing using fdatasync() is faster than syncing using fsync() as fdatasync() does not wait for the file metadata to be written to disk.
 # SQLITE_DEFAULT_WORKER_THREADS=4: This option sets the default number of worker threads to use when doing parallel sorting and indexing. The default is 0 which means to use a single thread. The default for SQLITE_MAX_WORKER_THREADS is 8.
 # SQLITE_MAX_PREPARE_RETRY=200: This option sets the maximum number of automatic re-preparation attempts that can occur after encountering a schema change. This can be caused by running ANALYZE which is done periodically by FTL.
-set(SQLITE_DEFINES "-DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_MEMSTATUS=0 -DSQLITE_OMIT_DEPRECATED -DSQLITE_OMIT_PROGRESS_CALLBACK -DSQLITE_OMIT_SHARED_CACHE -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS=1 -DSQLITE_DQS=0 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_DBPAGE_VTAB -DSQLITE_TEMP_STORE=2 -DHAVE_READLINE -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE=16384 -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_SYNCHRONOUS=1 -DSQLITE_LIKE_DOESNT_MATCH_BLOBS -DHAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE -DHAVE_FDATASYNC -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_WORKER_THREADS=4 -DSQLITE_MAX_PREPARE_RETRY=200")
+set(SQLITE_DEFINES "-DSQLITE_OMIT_LOAD_EXTENSION -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_MEMSTATUS=0 -DSQLITE_OMIT_DEPRECATED -DSQLITE_OMIT_PROGRESS_CALLBACK -DSQLITE_OMIT_SHARED_CACHE -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_FOREIGN_KEYS=1 -DSQLITE_DQS=0 -DSQLITE_ENABLE_DBPAGE_VTAB -DSQLITE_TEMP_STORE=2 -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_CACHE_SIZE=16384 -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_SYNCHRONOUS=1 -DSQLITE_LIKE_DOESNT_MATCH_BLOBS -DHAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE -DHAVE_FDATASYNC -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_WORKER_THREADS=4 -DSQLITE_MAX_PREPARE_RETRY=200")
 
 # Code hardening and debugging improvements
 # -fstack-protector-strong: The program will be resistant to having its stack overflowed
@@ -312,6 +311,7 @@ if(LIBREADLINE AND LIBHISTORY AND LIBTERMCAP)
     target_compile_definitions(FTL PRIVATE LUA_USE_READLINE)
     target_compile_definitions(pihole-FTL PRIVATE LUA_USE_READLINE)
     target_link_libraries(pihole-FTL ${LIBREADLINE} ${LIBHISTORY} ${LIBTERMCAP})
+    set(HAVE_READLINE TRUE)
 else()
     message(STATUS "Building FTL with readline support: NO")
 endif()
diff --git a/src/lua/ftl_lua.c b/src/lua/ftl_lua.c
index 5f448406d..0948ed065 100644
--- a/src/lua/ftl_lua.c
+++ b/src/lua/ftl_lua.c
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@
 #include "../files.h"
 // get_web_theme_str
 #include "../datastructure.h"
+#if HAVE_READLINE
 #include <readline/history.h>
+#endif
 #include <wordexp.h>
 #include "scripts/scripts.h"