diff --git a/tests/api.c b/tests/api.c
index 90f99886c..ffe6e1fea 100644
--- a/tests/api.c
+++ b/tests/api.c
@@ -5635,7 +5635,7 @@ static void test_wolfSSL_X509_verify(void)
 #if !defined(NO_FILESYSTEM) && !defined(NO_CERTS) && !defined(NO_RSA) && \
         !defined(NO_WOLFSSL_CLIENT) && !defined(NO_DH) && !defined(NO_AES) && \
          defined(HAVE_IO_TESTS_DEPENDENCIES) && !defined(SINGLE_THREADED) && \
-        defined(OPENSSL_EXTRA)
+        defined(OPENSSL_EXTRA) && defined(WOLFSSL_CERT_GEN)
 /* create certificate with version 2 */
 static void test_set_x509_badversion(WOLFSSL_CTX* ctx)
 {
@@ -5711,7 +5711,7 @@ static void test_wolfSSL_X509_TLS_version(void)
 #if !defined(NO_FILESYSTEM) && !defined(NO_CERTS) && !defined(NO_RSA) && \
         !defined(NO_WOLFSSL_CLIENT) && !defined(NO_DH) && !defined(NO_AES) && \
          defined(HAVE_IO_TESTS_DEPENDENCIES) && !defined(SINGLE_THREADED) && \
-        defined(OPENSSL_EXTRA)
+        defined(OPENSSL_EXTRA) && defined(WOLFSSL_CERT_GEN)
     tcp_ready   ready;
     func_args   server_args;
     func_args   client_args;