diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase.inc b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase.inc
index f521a30..f001696 100644
--- a/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase.inc
+++ b/recipes-qt/qt5/qtbase.inc
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ SRC_URI += " \
 
 DEPENDS += "qtbase-native freetype jpeg libpng zlib openssl glib-2.0 ${ICU} udev ${XCB_DEPENDS} ${GL_DEPENDS} ${TSLIB_DEPENDS} ${FONTCONFIG_DEPENDS}"
 
+# for syncqt
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-tools += "perl"
+
 # to provide xcb/xcb_icccm.h, xcb/xcb_image.h, xcb/xcb_keysyms.h and dbus/dbus.h
 # XCB_DEPENDS += "xcb-util-wm xcb-util-image xcb-util-keysyms dbus"
 # reenable when we switch to "-qt-xcb" and build of