diff --git a/net-misc/sshx/sshx-0.2.3.ebuild b/net-misc/sshx/sshx-0.2.3.ebuild
index 312adc32e3..335c4d6481 100644
--- a/net-misc/sshx/sshx-0.2.3.ebuild
+++ b/net-misc/sshx/sshx-0.2.3.ebuild
@@ -271,6 +271,8 @@ LICENSE+=" Apache-2.0 BSD ISC MIT MPL-2.0 Unicode-DFS-2016"
 SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64"
 
+BDEPEND="dev-libs/protobuf"
+
 src_install() {
 	dobin target/release/sshx
 	dobin target/release/sshx-server