diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/ox/oxipng/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/ox/oxipng/package.nix
index db8cb2cb3ef8..60e28c4285ed 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/ox/oxipng/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/ox/oxipng/package.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   stdenv,
   fetchFromGitHub,
   rustPlatform,
+  qemu,
 }:
 
 rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
@@ -19,6 +20,9 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
 
   cargoHash = "sha256-4PCLtBJliK3uteL8EVKLBVR2YZW1gwQOiSLQok+rqug=";
 
+  # See https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng/blob/14b8b0e93a/.cargo/config.toml#L5
+  nativeCheckInputs = [ qemu ];
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "https://github.com/shssoichiro/oxipng";
     description = "Multithreaded lossless PNG compression optimizer";