diff --git a/srcpkgs/crawl-tiles/template b/srcpkgs/crawl-tiles/template
index 64daf2804e5..690239c540e 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/crawl-tiles/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/crawl-tiles/template
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ make_build_args="prefix=/usr bin_prefix=bin DATADIR=/usr/share/crawl-tiles
  TILES=y SOUND=y GAME=crawl-tiles"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl pngcrush dejavu-fonts-ttf"
 makedepends="ncurses-devel lua51-devel sqlite-devel zlib-devel
- SDL2-devel SDL2_mixer-devel SDL2_image-devel"
+ SDL2-devel SDL2_mixer-devel SDL2_image-devel freetype-devel"
 depends="dejavu-fonts-ttf"
 short_desc="Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup roguelike adventure (with tiles GUI)"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"