diff --git a/interop-testing/build.gradle b/interop-testing/build.gradle
index a6b197b1d5..fdc524ac12 100644
--- a/interop-testing/build.gradle
+++ b/interop-testing/build.gradle
@@ -31,6 +31,19 @@ test {
     jvmArgs "-Xbootclasspath/p:" + configurations.alpnboot.asPath
 }
 
+// The application plugin uses the distribution plugin and configures the jars to be
+// placed into the "lib" folder. Since we don't include netty_tcnative as a dependency,
+// we have to manually copy it into the lib folder so that it's available to the scripts.
+distributions {
+    main {
+        contents {
+            from(configurations.tcnative) {
+                into "lib"
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 // For the generated scripts, use Netty tcnative (i.e. OpenSSL).
 // Note that OkHttp currently only supports ALPN, so OpenSSL version >= 1.0.2 is required.