diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance/default.nix b/pkgs/misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance/default.nix
index 964a0491adb4..95f7d9433f9b 100644
--- a/pkgs/misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance/default.nix
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
     url = mirror://sourceforge/vba/VisualBoyAdvance-src-1.7.2.tar.gz;
     sha256 = "1dr9w5i296dyq2gbx7sijk6p375aqnwld2n6rwnbzm2g3a94y4gl";
   };
-  patches = [ ./fix.diff ]; # patch to shut up lost of precision errors
+  patches = [ ./libpng15.patch ./fix.diff ]; # patch to shut up lost of precision errors
   preConfigure = ''
     # Fix errors with invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'
     sed -i -e "s|char \* p = strrchr|const char * p = strrchr|g" src/GBA.cpp
diff --git a/pkgs/misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance/libpng15.patch b/pkgs/misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance/libpng15.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b6f8872ce2bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/misc/emulators/VisualBoyAdvance/libpng15.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+From Gentoo. Fixes compilation with libpng-1.5
+
+--- a/src/Util.cpp
++++ b/src/Util.cpp
+@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
+     return false;
+   }
+ 
+-  if(setjmp(png_ptr->jmpbuf)) {
++  if(setjmp(png_jmpbuf(png_ptr))) {
+     png_destroy_write_struct(&png_ptr,NULL);
+     fclose(fp);
+     return false;