diff --git a/srcpkgs/muffin/template b/srcpkgs/muffin/template
index 2472a07060a..07a1e0abe14 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/muffin/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/muffin/template
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ distfiles="https://github.com/linuxmint/${pkgname}/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
 checksum=f96911d603f2770d0d937591ddc086061417dfcee6094530f4cc80474944044b
 shlib_provides="libmuffin-clutter-0.so libmuffin-cogl-pango-0.so
  libmuffin-cogl-path-0.so libmuffin-cogl-0.so"
+nocross="gobject-introspection"
 
 pre_configure() {
 	NOCONFIGURE=1 ./autogen.sh