diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/mu/multicharge/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/mu/multicharge/package.nix
index bd06e5bdc605..b5298015d4e1 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/mu/multicharge/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/mu/multicharge/package.nix
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@
   lib,
   fetchFromGitHub,
   gfortran,
+  buildType ? "meson",
   meson,
   ninja,
+  cmake,
   pkg-config,
   python3,
   blas,
@@ -14,6 +16,12 @@
 }:
 
 assert !blas.isILP64 && !lapack.isILP64;
+assert (
+  builtins.elem buildType [
+    "meson"
+    "cmake"
+  ]
+);
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   pname = "multicharge";
@@ -26,17 +34,28 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     hash = "sha256-8qwM3dpvFoL2WrMWNf14zYtRap0ijdfZ95XaTlkHhqQ=";
   };
 
+  patches = [
+    # Fix wrong generation of package config include paths
+    ./pkgconfig.patch
+  ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     gfortran
-    meson
-    ninja
     pkg-config
     python3
-  ];
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optionals (buildType == "meson") [
+    meson
+    ninja
+  ]
+  ++ lib.optional (buildType == "cmake") cmake;
 
   buildInputs = [
     blas
     lapack
+  ];
+
+  propagatedBuildInputs = [
     mctc-lib
     mstore
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/mu/multicharge/pkgconfig.patch b/pkgs/by-name/mu/multicharge/pkgconfig.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..00c7e907733b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/mu/multicharge/pkgconfig.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/config/template.pc b/config/template.pc
+index 3d6efbb..e338a42 100644
+--- a/config/template.pc
++++ b/config/template.pc
+@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+ prefix=@CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX@
+-libdir=${prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR@
+-includedir=${prefix}/@CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR@
++libdir=@CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_LIBDIR@
++includedir=@CMAKE_INSTALL_FULL_INCLUDEDIR@
+ 
+ Name: @PROJECT_NAME@
+ Description: @PROJECT_DESCRIPTION@