diff --git a/system/devel/xcb-proto/pspec.xml b/system/devel/xcb-proto/pspec.xml
index 5be6c99d..c923adaf 100644
--- a/system/devel/xcb-proto/pspec.xml
+++ b/system/devel/xcb-proto/pspec.xml
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
         <Description>XCB is a project to enable efficient language bindings to the X11 protocol. This package contains the protocol descriptions themselves. Language bindings use these protocol descriptions to generate code for marshalling the protocol.</Description>
         <Archive sha1sum="f7fa35ab59af18cecadbe83fe705281dcfd82ffd" type="tarbz2">https://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-proto-1.13.tar.bz2</Archive>
         <BuildDependencies>
+            <Dependency>meson</Dependency>
             <Dependency>libxml2</Dependency>
         </BuildDependencies>
     </Source>