diff --git a/component.mk b/component.mk
index 4b85ee4f217..b2f7e6a6b03 100644
--- a/component.mk
+++ b/component.mk
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ endef
 ARDUINO_LIBRARY_SRCDIRS := $(patsubst $(COMPONENT_PATH)/%,%,$(foreach LIBRARY,$(ARDUINO_ENABLED_LIBRARIES),$(call ARDUINO_LIBRARY_GET_SRCDIRS,$(LIBRARY))))
 
 #$(info Arduino libraries src dirs: $(ARDUINO_LIBRARY_SRCDIRS))
-
-COMPONENT_ADD_INCLUDEDIRS := cores/esp32 variants/esp32 $(ARDUINO_LIBRARY_SRCDIRS)
+ESP32_VARIANT ?= esp32
+COMPONENT_ADD_INCLUDEDIRS := cores/esp32 variants/$(ESP32_VARIANT) $(ARDUINO_LIBRARY_SRCDIRS)
 COMPONENT_PRIV_INCLUDEDIRS := cores/esp32/libb64
-COMPONENT_SRCDIRS := cores/esp32/libb64 cores/esp32 variants/esp32 $(ARDUINO_LIBRARY_SRCDIRS)
+COMPONENT_SRCDIRS := cores/esp32/libb64 cores/esp32 variants/$(ESP32_VARIANT) $(ARDUINO_LIBRARY_SRCDIRS)
 CXXFLAGS += -fno-rtti