diff --git a/src/modules/ecore_evas/engines/sdl/meson.build b/src/modules/ecore_evas/engines/sdl/meson.build
index 25dc49ef49..94b990df92 100644
--- a/src/modules/ecore_evas/engines/sdl/meson.build
+++ b/src/modules/ecore_evas/engines/sdl/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 engine_src = files(['ecore_evas_sdl.c'])
-engine_deps = [ecore_sdl, ecore_input, ecore]
+engine_deps = [ecore_sdl, ecore_input, ecore, dependency('sdl2')]
 
 shared_module(mod_full_name, engine_src,
   include_directories : config_dir + [engine_include_dir],