diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/swig/swig_2.0.12.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/swig/swig_2.0.12.bb
index d3707ee8c0c..be3b7196d41 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/swig/swig_2.0.12.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/swig/swig_2.0.12.bb
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ SRC_URI += "file://0001-Use-proc-self-exe-for-swig-swiglib-on-non-Win32-plat.pat
             file://0001-configure-use-pkg-config-for-pcre-detection.patch \
            "
 
+DEPENDS += " pkgconfig"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "c3fb0b2d710cc82ed0154b91e43085a4"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "65e13f22a60cecd7279c59882ff8ebe1ffe34078e85c602821a541817a4317f7"