diff --git a/ports/vcpkg-make/vcpkg_make.cmake b/ports/vcpkg-make/vcpkg_make.cmake
index 757b2bd7fdf565..9f995c453a2537 100644
--- a/ports/vcpkg-make/vcpkg_make.cmake
+++ b/ports/vcpkg-make/vcpkg_make.cmake
@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ endfunction()
 
 function(z_vcpkg_make_get_configure_triplets out)
     cmake_parse_arguments(PARSE_ARGV 1 arg
-        ""
-        "COMPILER_NAME"
+        "AVOID_BUILD_TRIPLET"
+        "COMPILER_NAME;CONFIG_DIR"
         ""
     )
     z_vcpkg_unparsed_args(FATAL_ERROR)
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ function(z_vcpkg_make_get_configure_triplets out)
         set(build_triplet_opt "--build=${BUILD_ARCH}-pc-mingw32") 
     endif()
 
-    set(host_triplet "")
+    set(host_triplet_opt "")
     if(VCPKG_CROSSCOMPILING)
         if(VCPKG_TARGET_IS_WINDOWS)
             if(NOT TARGET_ARCH MATCHES "${BUILD_ARCH}" OR NOT CMAKE_HOST_WIN32)
@@ -158,6 +158,41 @@ function(z_vcpkg_make_get_configure_triplets out)
         endif()
     endif()
 
+    if (host_triplet_opt AND NOT build_triplet_opt AND NOT arg_AVOID_BUILD_TRIPLET)
+        # According to the autoconf manual, when specifying --host, one should always also specify
+        # --build. It is mentioned that this was due to historic reasons and that it will be fixed
+        # in some future version but for now, we should do exactly as recommended.
+        if (arg_CONFIG_DIR)
+            cmake_path(ABSOLUTE_PATH "config.guess" BASE_DIRECTORY "${arg_CONFIG_DIR}" OUTPUT_VARIABLE config_guess_file)
+        endif()
+
+        if (EXISTS "${config_guess_file}")
+            if (CMAKE_HOST_WIN32)
+                vcpkg_execute_required_process(
+                    COMMAND ${base_cmd} -c "${config_guess_file}"
+                    LOGNAME "config.guess-${TARGET_TRIPLET}"
+                    OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+                    OUTPUT_VARIABLE BUILD_TRIPLET
+                )
+            else()
+                vcpkg_execute_required_process(
+                    COMMAND "${config_guess_file}"
+                    LOGNAME "config.guess-${TARGET_TRIPLET}"
+                    OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
+                    OUTPUT_VARIABLE BUILD_TRIPLET
+                )
+            endif()
+
+            set(build_triplet_opt "--build=${BUILD_TRIPLET}")
+        elseif (VCPKG_HOST_IS_WINDOWS)
+            set(build_triplet_opt "--build=${BUILD_ARCH}-pc-mingw32")
+        elseif (VCPKG_HOST_IS_LINUX)
+            set(build_triplet_opt "--build=${BUILD_ARCH}-pc-linux")
+        elseif (VCPKG_HOST_IS_IOS OR VCPKG_HOST_IS_OSX)
+            set(build_triplet_opt "--build=${BUILD_ARCH}-apple-darwin")
+        endif()
+    endif()
+
     set(output "${build_triplet_opt};${host_triplet_opt}")
     string(STRIP "${output}" output)
     set("${out}" "${output}" PARENT_SCOPE)
diff --git a/ports/vcpkg-make/vcpkg_make_configure.cmake b/ports/vcpkg-make/vcpkg_make_configure.cmake
index 57ce70d9333684..859d22dd5ffa88 100644
--- a/ports/vcpkg-make/vcpkg_make_configure.cmake
+++ b/ports/vcpkg-make/vcpkg_make_configure.cmake
@@ -50,9 +50,6 @@ function(vcpkg_make_configure)
     if(DEFINED VCPKG_MAKE_BUILD_TRIPLET)
         set(BUILD_TRIPLET "${VCPKG_MAKE_BUILD_TRIPLET}")
     endif()
-    if(NOT DEFINED BUILD_TRIPLET)
-        z_vcpkg_make_get_configure_triplets(BUILD_TRIPLET COMPILER_NAME "${ccname}")
-    endif()
 
     if(NOT arg_DISABLE_MSVC_WRAPPERS AND "${frontend}" STREQUAL "MSVC" )
         # Lets assume that wrappers are only required for MSVC like frontends.
@@ -92,6 +89,10 @@ function(vcpkg_make_configure)
             set(relative_build_path ".")
         endif()
 
+		if(NOT DEFINED BUILD_TRIPLET)
+			z_vcpkg_make_get_configure_triplets(BUILD_TRIPLET COMPILER_NAME "${ccname}" CONFIG_DIR "${target_dir}")
+		endif()
+
         z_vcpkg_make_prepare_programs(configure_env ${prepare_flags_opts} CONFIG "${configup}" BUILD_TRIPLET "${BUILD_TRIPLET}")
 
         set(opts "")
diff --git a/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_configure_make.cmake b/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_configure_make.cmake
index a3fe6826bfde63..73d94f956eadb2 100644
--- a/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_configure_make.cmake
+++ b/scripts/cmake/vcpkg_configure_make.cmake
@@ -754,39 +754,6 @@ function(vcpkg_configure_make)
         message(STATUS "Finished generating configure for ${TARGET_TRIPLET}")
     endif()
 
-    if ((arg_BUILD_TRIPLET MATCHES "--host") AND NOT (arg_BUILD_TRIPLET MATCHES "--build"))
-        # --host option specified but --build has been left out. According to the autoconf manual,
-        # whenever --host is set, --build must be too (for historical reasons).
-        # See https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.65/html_node/Specifying-Target-Triplets.html
-        # -> Use config.guess to determine build triplet
-        if (EXISTS "config.guess")
-            if (CMAKE_HOST_WIN32)
-                vcpkg_execute_required_process(
-                    COMMAND ${base_cmd} -c "./config.guess"
-                    WORKING_DIRECTORY "${src_dir}"
-                    LOGNAME "config.guess-${TARGET_TRIPLET}"
-                    OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
-                    OUTPUT_VARIABLE BUILD_TRIPLET
-                )
-            else()
-                vcpkg_execute_required_process(
-                    COMMAND "./config.guess"
-                    WORKING_DIRECTORY "${src_dir}"
-                    LOGNAME "config.guess-${TARGET_TRIPLET}"
-                    OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
-                    OUTPUT_VARIABLE BUILD_TRIPLET
-                )
-            endif()
-
-            string(APPEND arg_BUILD_TRIPLET " --build=${BUILD_TRIPLET}")
-        else()
-            # For the time being we'll assume that for projects that don't have a config.guess
-            # file, target triplets aren't that important and hence we can get away with not
-            # defining --build in addition to --host
-            debug_message("vcpkg will run configure with the --host option but without --build, which may cause issues")
-        endif()
-    endif()
-
     if (arg_PRERUN_SHELL)
         message(STATUS "Prerun shell with ${TARGET_TRIPLET}")
         if (CMAKE_HOST_WIN32)