Trouble including libserialport

[SillieWous]

I am using Gnome builder for a .vala project. In this project I want to use libserialport of which I have the library and -devel packages installed. At first I was having issues with the vala part of the library, which turned out to be the .vapi file missing which was easily solved. However now I'm having trouble with the C library part of it and am getting the following error if I include it as: meson.get_compiler('c').find_library('libserialport')

C shared or static library 'libserialport' not found

It does show up in pkgconfig pkg-config --list-package-names | grep libserialport and I can find the library in /usr/lib64

Contents of /urs/lib64/pkgconfig/libserialport.pc

prefix=/usr
exec_prefix=/usr
libdir=/usr/lib64
includedir=/usr/include

Name: libserialport
Description: Cross-platform serial port access library.
URL: http://sigrok.org/wiki/Libserialport
Requires.private:
Version: 0.1.1
Libs: -L${libdir} -lserialport
Libs.private:
Cflags: -I${includedir}