diff --git a/gdk-pixbuf/meson.build b/gdk-pixbuf/meson.build
index 54ff9dda37b6d733a3f83a3c7e1676faa751afe0..a11926eeee13b9bb2cd74f552993ca070e762c4a 100644
--- a/gdk-pixbuf/meson.build
+++ b/gdk-pixbuf/meson.build
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ gdkpixbuf_dep = declare_dependency(
   dependencies: gdk_pixbuf_deps,
   sources: [ gdkpixbuf_enum_h, built_girs ],
 )
+meson.override_dependency('gdk-pixbuf-2.0', gdkpixbuf_dep)
 
 # Now check if we are building loaders as installed shared modules
 # We do this here because shared modules depend on libgdk-pixbuf