diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 509644f1..8cb39ddf 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 	  Thanks Ørjan Malde
 	* PR #216 Update declaration for function with no argument
 	  Thanks Ed Maste
+	* PR #214 fix the build in FreeBSD's base system
+	  Thanks Pierre Pronchery and Dag-Erling Smørgrav
 
 1.8.3	2022-08-15
 	* bugfix #183: Assertion failure with OPT record without rdata.
diff --git a/str2host.c b/str2host.c
index 4617aa3c..5b78e5bc 100644
--- a/str2host.c
+++ b/str2host.c
@@ -2198,7 +2198,7 @@ static const size_t svcparam_key_defs_len = sizeof(svcparam_key_defs)
 /* svcparam_key2buffer_str() should actually be in host2str.c, but we need the
  * svcparam_key_defs for it and it is not an exposed symbol anyway.
  */
-static ldns_status svcparam_key2buffer_str(ldns_buffer *output, uint16_t key)
+ldns_status svcparam_key2buffer_str(ldns_buffer *output, uint16_t key)
 {
 	if (key <= LDNS_SVCPARAM_KEY_LAST_KEY)
 		ldns_buffer_write_string(output, svcparam_key_defs[key].str);