diff --git a/dev-db/pg_query_vala/pg_query_vala-0.1.0_pre20240326.ebuild b/dev-db/pg_query_vala/pg_query_vala-0.1.0_pre20240326.ebuild
index 7fd0648e6b..08b0f46c14 100644
--- a/dev-db/pg_query_vala/pg_query_vala-0.1.0_pre20240326.ebuild
+++ b/dev-db/pg_query_vala/pg_query_vala-0.1.0_pre20240326.ebuild
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
 	>=dev-libs/glib-2.0.0:2
 	dev-db/libpg_query
+	dev-lang/vala
 	dev-libs/protobuf-c:0/1.0.0
 	dev-libs/xxhash
 "