diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/cuda/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/cuda/meson.build
index 3a2524420b..50ae0276ce 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/cuda/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-bad/gst-libs/gst/cuda/meson.build
@@ -48,15 +48,12 @@ if host_system not in ['windows', 'linux']
   subdir_done()
 endif
 
-# Linux ARM would need -latomic for std::atomic<int64_t>
-if host_system == 'linux' and host_machine.cpu_family() in ['aarch64', 'arm']
-  libatomic_dep = cxx.find_library('atomic', required: get_option('cuda-nvmm'))
-  if not libatomic_dep.found()
-    subdir_done()
-  endif
-
-  gstcuda_platform_dep += [libatomic_dep]
-endif
+# Check for libatomic for use of C11 atomics: some architectures need
+# to link explicitly to this library.
+# TODO: Once meson 1.7 is in use, this can be updated to
+# dependency('atomic')
+atomic_dep = cxx.find_library('atomic', required: false)
+gstcuda_platform_dep += [atomic_dep]
 
 cuda_win32_headers = [
   'initguid.h',
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-libs/gst/audio/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-libs/gst/audio/meson.build
index 1d69713e61..cf8935bace 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-libs/gst/audio/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/gst-libs/gst/audio/meson.build
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ gstaudio = library('gstaudio-@0@'.format(api_version),
   soversion : soversion,
   darwin_versions : osxversion,
   install : true,
-  dependencies : gstaudio_deps,
+  dependencies : [ gstaudio_deps, base_platform_dep ],
 )
 pkg_name = 'gstreamer-audio-1.0'
 pkgconfig.generate(gstaudio,
diff --git a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
index 947dc10d88..5a40f44c0a 100644
--- a/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gst-plugins-base/meson.build
@@ -398,6 +398,15 @@ else
   core_conf.set('DISABLE_ORC', 1)
 endif
 
+base_platform_dep = []
+# Check for libatomic for use of C11 atomics: some architectures need
+# to link explicitly to this library.
+# TODO: Once meson 1.7 is in use, this can be updated to
+# dependency('atomic')
+atomic_dep = cc.find_library('atomic', required: false)
+
+base_platform_dep += [atomic_dep]
+
 # Used to build SSE* things in audio-resampler
 sse_args = '-msse'
 sse2_args = '-msse2'
diff --git a/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build b/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
index 82b9046ee6..7e6cbe2808 100644
--- a/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
+++ b/subprojects/gstreamer/meson.build
@@ -599,6 +599,13 @@ if nsl_lib.found()
   network_deps += nsl_lib
 endif
 
+# Check for libatomic for use of C11 atomics: some architectures need
+# to link explicitly to this library.
+# TODO: Once meson 1.7 is in use, this can be updated to
+# dependency('atomic')
+atomic_dep = cc.find_library('atomic', required: false)
+platform_deps += atomic_dep
+
 gir = find_program('g-ir-scanner', required : get_option('introspection'))
 gnome = import('gnome')