diff --git a/srcpkgs/dynamips/template b/srcpkgs/dynamips/template
index 6c0d7fd74ce..5f7c20572e0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/dynamips/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/dynamips/template
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 pkgname=dynamips
 version=0.2.23
 revision=1
-archs="i686* x86_64*"
 build_style=cmake
+build_helper=qemu
 makedepends="elfutils-devel libpcap-devel"
 depends="iouyap"
 short_desc="Hardware emulation for Cisco IOS capable devices"
@@ -13,8 +13,10 @@ homepage="https://github.com/GNS3/dynamips"
 distfiles="https://github.com/GNS3/${pkgname}/archive/v${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=503bbb52c03f91900ea8dbe8bd0b804b76e2e28d0b7242624e0d3c52dda441a1
 
-# Dynamips does processor instruction translation.  This is already
-# painfully slow on powerful x86 hardware and is unlikely to work
-# reliably on arm processors.
-#
-# So restrict to x86_64* and i686*
+# cross compile does not currently work without binfmt 
+# so `nocross` is used in environments like Github Actions
+_BINFMT_PATH=/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/qemu-${XBPS_TARGET_QEMU_MACHINE}-static
+
+if ! grep -q enabled ${_BINFMT_PATH} 2>/dev/null; then
+	nocross="binfmt support not enabled"
+fi