diff --git a/ports/libvpl/001-fix-pkgconfig.patch b/ports/libvpl/001-fix-pkgconfig.patch
index 597b78c1fc..eb0188438f 100755
--- a/ports/libvpl/001-fix-pkgconfig.patch
+++ b/ports/libvpl/001-fix-pkgconfig.patch
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ diff --git a/libvpl/CMakeLists.txt b/libvpl/CMakeLists.txt
 index 0419980..42a765a 100644
 --- a/libvpl/CMakeLists.txt
 +++ b/libvpl/CMakeLists.txt
-@@ -188,10 +188,22 @@ if(INSTALL_DEV)
+@@ -188,10 +188,24 @@ if(INSTALL_DEV)
    if(MINGW)
      # being conservative by restricting to MinGW, these are probably ok for
      # WIN32 in general
@@ -15,10 +15,12 @@ index 0419980..42a765a 100644
 +  foreach(lib IN LISTS CMAKE_CXX_IMPLICIT_LINK_LIBRARIES)
 +    if(lib IN_LIST CMAKE_C_IMPLICIT_LINK_LIBRARIES)
 +        continue()
-+    elseif(EXISTS "${lib}")
-+        string(APPEND CXX_LIB " ${CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_FILE_FLAG}${lib}")
++    elseif(IS_ABSOLUTE "${lib}")
++        # An absolute archive path is already valid linker input; pass it
++        # through verbatim. Only bare library names get the "-l" prefix.
++        string(APPEND CXX_LIB " ${lib}")
 +    else()
-+        string(APPEND CXX_LIB " ${CMAKE_LINK_LIBRARY_FLAG}${lib}")
++        string(APPEND CXX_LIB " -l${lib}")
 +    endif()
 +  endforeach()
    set(VPL_PKGCONFIG_DEPENDENT_LIBS
@@ -38,6 +40,6 @@ index aa9b158..46b2c38 100644
 +prefix=${pcfiledir}/../..
 +libdir=${prefix}/lib
 +includedir=${prefix}/include
- 
+
  Name: Intel(R) Video Processing Library
  Description: Accelerated video decode, encode, and frame processing capabilities on Intel(R) GPUs
diff --git a/ports/libvpl/vcpkg.json b/ports/libvpl/vcpkg.json
index f56b80c3b0..3f186b7ba4 100755
--- a/ports/libvpl/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/libvpl/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "libvpl",
   "version": "2.16.0",
+  "port-version": 1,
   "description": "Intel Video Processing Library (oneVPL) dispatcher",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/intel/libvpl",
   "license": "MIT",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 4cb1fac8de..03c9657596 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -5890,7 +5890,7 @@
     },
     "libvpl": {
       "baseline": "2.16.0",
-      "port-version": 0
+      "port-version": 1
     },
     "libvpx": {
       "baseline": "1.16.0",
diff --git a/versions/l-/libvpl.json b/versions/l-/libvpl.json
index bb4de2d036..f54432f862 100644
--- a/versions/l-/libvpl.json
+++ b/versions/l-/libvpl.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "f93444b39a19d32f09a2b544aff87fc306906fbf",
+      "version": "2.16.0",
+      "port-version": 1
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "68c0ca356b8b51646714f4d1be05acadf1cd60a8",
       "version": "2.16.0",