diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 243df1a266a0..5607cd20365b 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -7736,7 +7736,8 @@ let
 
   xaos = builderDefsPackage (import ../applications/graphics/xaos) {
     inherit (xlibs) libXt libX11 libXext xextproto xproto;
-    inherit gsl aalib zlib libpng intltool gettext perl;
+    inherit gsl aalib zlib intltool gettext perl;
+    libpng = libpng12;
   };
 
   xara = callPackage ../applications/graphics/xara { };