diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/fix-build-qt-6.10.patch b/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/fix-build-qt-6.10.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a7138372240e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/fix-build-qt-6.10.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+diff --git a/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt b/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt
+index 1afa856f..dcd36f84 100644
+--- a/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/src/frontend/qt_sdl/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ option(USE_QT6 "Use Qt 6 instead of Qt 5" ON)
+ if (USE_QT6)
+     find_package(Qt6 COMPONENTS Core Gui Widgets Network Multimedia OpenGL OpenGLWidgets Svg REQUIRED)
+     set(QT_LINK_LIBS Qt6::Core Qt6::Gui Qt6::Widgets Qt6::Network Qt6::Multimedia Qt6::OpenGL Qt6::OpenGLWidgets)
++    if(Qt6Gui_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL "6.10")
++        find_package(Qt6 COMPONENTS GuiPrivate REQUIRED)
++        list(APPEND QT_LINK_LIBS Qt6::GuiPrivate)
++    endif()
+ else()
+     find_package(Qt5 COMPONENTS Core Gui Widgets Network Multimedia Svg REQUIRED)
+     set(QT_LINK_LIBS Qt5::Core Qt5::Gui Qt5::Widgets Qt5::Network Qt5::Multimedia)
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/package.nix
index 831f12648b4e..bde7555c6e54 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/me/melonDS/package.nix
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     hash = "sha256-04Wr7xUwz6Q9JDiEfTQh6Vx5q71dFVI9rScIpt6ywGY=";
   };
 
+  patches = [ ./fix-build-qt-6.10.patch ];
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [
     cmake
     extra-cmake-modules