diff --git a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
index 53fac978ebb..e3528ce699d 100644
--- a/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
+++ b/pkgs/tools/typesetting/tex/texlive/bin.nix
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ let
         url = https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/texlive-poppler-0.64.patch?h=packages/texlive-bin;
         sha256 = "0443d074zl3c5raba8jyhavish706arjcd80ibb84zwnwck4ai0w";
       })
+      (fetchurl {
+        name = "synctex-missing-header.patch";
+        url = https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/plain/trunk/synctex-missing-header.patch?h=packages/texlive-bin&id=da56abf0f8a1e85daca0ec0f031b8fa268519e6b;
+        sha256 = "1c4aq8lk8g3mlfq3mdjnxvmhss3qs7nni5rmw0k054dmj6q1xj5n";
+      })
     ];
 
     configureFlags = [