diff --git a/srcpkgs/osg/template b/srcpkgs/osg/template
index 3cf58111381..6e7e6fcf12c 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/osg/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/osg/template
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ homepage="http://www.openscenegraph.org"
 distfiles="https://github.com/openscenegraph/OpenSceneGraph/archive/OpenSceneGraph-${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=930eb46f05781a76883ec16c5f49cfb29a059421db131005d75bec4d78401fd5
 
+if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+	hostmakedepends+=" qemu-user-static"
+fi
+
 # Append CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to set work around code which gcc6 would
 # otherwise regard as out-of-specification and allow it to produce a
 # working program.