diff --git a/groups.d/231.native_packages_etc.group b/groups.d/231.native_packages_etc.group
index f87e727..fc25953 100644
--- a/groups.d/231.native_packages_etc.group
+++ b/groups.d/231.native_packages_etc.group
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ have_shm_mmap_posix=yes"};
 : ${PKG_SHARED_MIME_INFO_URL:=http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/shared-mime-info-${PKG_SHARED_MIME_INFO_VERSION}.tar.xz};
 : ${PKG_SHARED_MIME_INFO_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:=--disable-update-mimedb};
 : ${PKG_SHARED_MIME_INFO_MAKEFLAGS_PARALLELISE:="-j1"};
-: ${PKG_SLANG_DEPENDS:="libpng ncursesw"};
+: ${PKG_SLANG_DEPENDS:="libpng ncursesw pcre"};
 : ${PKG_SLANG_SHA256SUM:=f9145054ae131973c61208ea82486d5dd10e3c5cdad23b7c4a0617743c8f5a18};
 : ${PKG_SLANG_VERSION:=2.3.3};
 : ${PKG_SLANG_URL:=https://www.jedsoft.org/releases/slang/slang-${PKG_SLANG_VERSION}.tar.bz2};