diff --git a/mingw-w64-squirrel/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-squirrel/PKGBUILD
index 1273313a35..c76a1a6e90 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-squirrel/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-squirrel/PKGBUILD
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ pkgdesc="A light-weight scripting language that fits in the size, memory bandwid
 arch=('any')
 url='http://www.squirrel-lang.org'
 license=('MIT')
+makedepends=("${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-cmake")
 source=("http://sourceforge.net/projects/squirrel/files/squirrel3/squirrel%20${pkgver}%20stable/${_realname}_3_1_stable.tar.gz"
          squirrel-3.1-1-cmake-name.patch)
 sha256sums=('4845a7fb82e4740bde01b0854112e3bb92a0816ad959c5758236e73f4409d0cb'