diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/tokei/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/tokei/default.nix
index 65a210ed4b91..f9b4343a63a7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/tokei/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/tokei/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, rustPlatform }:
+{ stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, rustPlatform, libiconv }:
 
 rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
   pname = "tokei";
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
 
   cargoSha256 = "1xai3jxvs8r3s3v5d5w40miw6nihnj9gzlzzdrwphmgrkywr88c4";
 
+  buildInputs = [ libiconv ];
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Program that displays statistics about your code";
     homepage = https://github.com/XAMPPRocky/tokei;