diff --git a/srcpkgs/tigervnc/template b/srcpkgs/tigervnc/template
index 4299edcf228..98b981ecc39 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tigervnc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/tigervnc/template
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ build_style=cmake
 short_desc="VNC client forked from TightVNC"
 maintainer="Evan Deaubl <evan@deaubl.name>"
 license="GPL-2.0-or-later"
-hostmakedepends="automake xorg-util-macros font-util pkg-config libtool xtrans"
+hostmakedepends="automake gettext xorg-util-macros font-util pkg-config libtool xtrans"
 makedepends="fltk-devel zlib-devel libXtst-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel pixman-devel
  xorgproto libxkbfile-devel libXfont2-devel gnutls-devel libdrm-devel"
 depends="perl xauth xkeyboard-config"