diff --git a/srcpkgs/libgdal/template b/srcpkgs/libgdal/template
index a2fad3f737e..f27a882aab3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libgdal/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libgdal/template
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ build_style=cmake
 build_helper=python3
 configure_args="-DGDAL_USE_OPENCL=ON
  -DPython_NumPy_INCLUDE_DIR=/${py3_sitelib}/numpy/core/include/numpy"
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config bison swig python3-numpy"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config bison swig python3-numpy python3-setuptools"
 makedepends="python3-devel freexl-devel c-blosc-devel geos-devel expat-devel
  jasper-devel giflib-devel json-c-devel libcurl-devel libopenexr-devel
  libjpeg-turbo-devel libpng-devel tiff-devel libqhull-devel libwebp-devel