diff --git a/build/android/Makefile b/build/android/Makefile
index 898968bed..b11d73972 100644
--- a/build/android/Makefile
+++ b/build/android/Makefile
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ CURL_URL_HTTP = http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-${CURL_VERSION}.tar.bz2
 
 GMP_VERSION = 6.0.0
 GMP_DIR = $(ROOT)/deps/gmp-$(GMP_VERSION)
-GMP_LIB = $(GMP_DIR)/usr/lib/libgmp.la
+GMP_LIB = $(GMP_DIR)/usr/lib/libgmp.so
 GMP_TIMESTAMP = $(GMP_DIR)/timestamp
 GMP_TIMESTAMP_INT = $(ROOT)/deps/gmp_timestamp
 GMP_URL_HTTP = https://gmplib.org/download/gmp/gmp-$(GMP_VERSION).tar.bz2
@@ -602,6 +602,8 @@ $(GMP_LIB): $(GMP_TIMESTAMP)
 	export PATH="$${TOOLCHAIN}/bin:$${PATH}";                                  \
 	export CC=${CROSS_PREFIX}gcc;                                              \
 	export CXX=${CROSS_PREFIX}g++;                                             \
+	export LIBGMP_LDFLAGS="-avoid-version";                                    \
+	export LIBGMPXX_LDFLAGS="-avoid-version";                                  \
 	./configure --disable-static --host=${TARGET_HOST} --prefix=/usr;          \
 	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=/${GMP_DIR} || exit 1;                             \
 	touch ${GMP_TIMESTAMP};                                                    \
diff --git a/build/android/src/net/minetest/minetest/MtNativeActivity.java b/build/android/src/net/minetest/minetest/MtNativeActivity.java
index 2bfcef93c..5c1f44d17 100644
--- a/build/android/src/net/minetest/minetest/MtNativeActivity.java
+++ b/build/android/src/net/minetest/minetest/MtNativeActivity.java
@@ -86,6 +86,12 @@ public class MtNativeActivity extends NativeActivity {
 		System.loadLibrary("vorbis");
 		System.loadLibrary("ssl");
 		System.loadLibrary("crypto");
+		System.loadLibrary("gmp");
+
+		// We don't have to load libminetest.so ourselves,
+		// but if we do, we get nicer logcat errors when
+		// loading fails.
+		System.loadLibrary("minetest");
 	}
 	
 	private int m_MessagReturnCode;