diff --git a/dev-util/maturin/maturin-1.3.0.ebuild b/dev-util/maturin/maturin-1.3.0.ebuild
index 59680a00d7cb9..63d8133f97a18 100644
--- a/dev-util/maturin/maturin-1.3.0.ebuild
+++ b/dev-util/maturin/maturin-1.3.0.ebuild
@@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ RDEPEND="$(python_gen_cond_dep 'dev-python/tomli[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]' 3.10)"
 DEPEND="ssl? ( dev-libs/openssl:= )"
 BDEPEND="
 	dev-python/setuptools-rust[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	virtual/pkgconfig
 	doc? ( app-text/mdbook )
 	test? (
 		${RDEPEND}