diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 8b9fda4d95..67ec2b7831 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -4015,7 +4015,7 @@ libchardev = static_library('chardev', chardev_ss.sources() + genh,
                             build_by_default: false)
 
 chardev = declare_dependency(objects: libchardev.extract_all_objects(recursive: false),
-                             dependencies: chardev_ss.dependencies())
+                             dependencies: [chardev_ss.dependencies(), io])
 
 hwcore_ss = hwcore_ss.apply({})
 libhwcore = static_library('hwcore', sources: hwcore_ss.sources() + genh,