diff --git a/srcpkgs/SDL_image/template b/srcpkgs/SDL_image/template
index b97255a3bef..49ce87567f0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/SDL_image/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/SDL_image/template
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ version=1.2.12
 revision=10
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--disable-static"
+hostmakedepends="SDL-devel"
 makedepends="libpng-devel>=1.6 tiff-devel SDL-devel libwebp-devel>=0.4.0"
 # The following are dlopen(3)ed at runtime.
 depends="libpng>=1.6 tiff libjpeg-turbo libwebp>=0.4.0"