diff --git a/gnome-extra/gnome-calendar/gnome-calendar-49.0.1.ebuild b/gnome-extra/gnome-calendar/gnome-calendar-49.0.1.ebuild
index d0fbb501d192d..7b72fa5b36ef1 100644
--- a/gnome-extra/gnome-calendar/gnome-calendar-49.0.1.ebuild
+++ b/gnome-extra/gnome-calendar/gnome-calendar-49.0.1.ebuild
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 BDEPEND="
 	dev-libs/appstream-glib
 	dev-libs/libxml2:2
+	dev-util/blueprint-compiler
 	>=dev-util/gdbus-codegen-2.80.5-r1
 	dev-util/glib-utils
 	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.19.8