diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f489e46c4..26619e459 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -409,8 +409,7 @@ if(SLIC3R_STATIC)
     set(USE_BLOSC TRUE)
 endif()
 
-
-find_package(OpenVDB 5.0 COMPONENTS openvdb)
+find_package(OpenVDB 5.0 REQUIRED COMPONENTS openvdb)
 if(OpenVDB_FOUND)
     slic3r_remap_configs(IlmBase::Half RelWithDebInfo Release)
 endif()
diff --git a/cmake/modules/FindOpenVDB.cmake b/cmake/modules/FindOpenVDB.cmake
index e000b05dd..84b5f4116 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/FindOpenVDB.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/FindOpenVDB.cmake
@@ -235,7 +235,9 @@ foreach(COMPONENT ${OpenVDB_FIND_COMPONENTS})
   if (_is_multi)
     list(APPEND OpenVDB_LIB_COMPONENTS ${OpenVDB_${COMPONENT}_LIBRARY_RELEASE} ${OpenVDB_${COMPONENT}_LIBRARY_DEBUG})
 
-    if(OpenVDB_${COMPONENT}_LIBRARY_RELEASE AND ${OpenVDB_${COMPONENT}_LIBRARY_DEBUG})
+    list(FIND CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "Debug" _has_debug)
+    
+    if(OpenVDB_${COMPONENT}_LIBRARY_RELEASE AND (_has_debug LESS 0 OR OpenVDB_${COMPONENT}_LIBRARY_DEBUG))
       set(OpenVDB_${COMPONENT}_FOUND TRUE)
     else()
       set(OpenVDB_${COMPONENT}_FOUND FALSE)