diff --git a/ports/tesseract/portfile.cmake b/ports/tesseract/portfile.cmake
index ccd8366ec5..f9985ad5c0 100644
--- a/ports/tesseract/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/tesseract/portfile.cmake
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ vcpkg_check_features(OUT_FEATURE_OPTIONS FEATURE_OPTIONS
         training-tools  BUILD_TRAINING_TOOLS
 )
 
+vcpkg_find_acquire_program(PKGCONFIG)
+
 vcpkg_cmake_configure(
     SOURCE_PATH "${SOURCE_PATH}"
     OPTIONS
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ vcpkg_cmake_configure(
         -DLeptonica_DIR=YES
         -DSW_BUILD=OFF
         -DLEPT_TIFF_RESULT=ON
+        "-DPKG_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=${PKGCONFIG}"
     MAYBE_UNUSED_VARIABLES
         CMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_OpenCL
 )
diff --git a/ports/tesseract/vcpkg.json b/ports/tesseract/vcpkg.json
index a069734990..522bc7c422 100644
--- a/ports/tesseract/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/tesseract/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "tesseract",
   "version": "5.5.0",
+  "port-version": 1,
   "description": "An OCR Engine that was developed at HP Labs between 1985 and 1995... and now at Google.",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 9bb4c96a3b..44390e01b1 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -8874,7 +8874,7 @@
     },
     "tesseract": {
       "baseline": "5.5.0",
-      "port-version": 0
+      "port-version": 1
     },
     "tevclient": {
       "baseline": "2023-12-04",
diff --git a/versions/t-/tesseract.json b/versions/t-/tesseract.json
index 4d57d976f3..c93495eebb 100644
--- a/versions/t-/tesseract.json
+++ b/versions/t-/tesseract.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "3037e2bd6bed856d03266bdfa59f67884896f29c",
+      "version": "5.5.0",
+      "port-version": 1
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "af8c40f10f9acc909e8602a251c96f2336ac93aa",
       "version": "5.5.0",