diff --git a/projects/rocsparse/clients/CMakeLists.txt b/projects/rocsparse/clients/CMakeLists.txt
index 90eac6b226b..86c40c77343 100644
--- a/projects/rocsparse/clients/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/projects/rocsparse/clients/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -101,7 +101,11 @@ else()
   # if there is no omp.h to find the client compilation will fail and this should be obvious, used to be REQUIRED
   find_package(OpenMP)
   if (TARGET OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX)
-    set(ROCSPARSE_CLIENT_LIBS "OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX")
+    if(NOT WIN32)
+      set(ROCSPARSE_CLIENT_LIBS "OpenMP::OpenMP_CXX")
+    else()
+      set(ROCSPARSE_CLIENT_LIBS libomp)
+    endif()
   endif()
 endif()
 
diff --git a/projects/rocsparse/clients/tools/CMakeLists.txt b/projects/rocsparse/clients/tools/CMakeLists.txt
index 301b239c2d3..d7d574bbc22 100644
--- a/projects/rocsparse/clients/tools/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/projects/rocsparse/clients/tools/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ foreach(app ${ROCSPARSEIO_TOOLS_SOURCES})
   # Internal common header
   target_include_directories(${app} PRIVATE $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../include> $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../common>)
 
+  target_link_libraries(${app} PRIVATE hip::host)
+
   # Set tools output directory
   set_target_properties(${app} PROPERTIES RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}/staging")